How to find the comment tag <!--…--> with BeautifulSoup?

Question

I tried soup.find(\'!--\') but it doesn\'t seem to work. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Thanks for the tip on how to find all comments. I have a follow up question. How d

Answer 1

You can find all the comments in a document with via the findAll method. See this example showing how to do exactly what you're trying to do Removing elements:

In brief, you want this:

comments = soup.findAll(text=lambda text:isinstance(text, Comment))

Edit: If you're trying to search within the columns, you can try:

import re
comments = soup.findAll(text=lambda text:isinstance(text, Comment))
for comment in comments:
  e = re.match(r'([^<]*)', comment.string).group(1)
  print e