BeautifulSoup - adding attribute to tag

Question

Question for you here, I\'m trying to add an attribute to a tag here, wondering if I can use a BeautifulSoup method, or should use plain string manipulation.

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Answer 1

Easy with BeautifulSoup :)

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('BRITISH COLUMBIA')
>>> soup.find('option')['selected'] = ''
>>> print soup
BRITISH COLUMBIA

The attributes can be looked at as a dictionary. So we have {'value':'BC'}, and to add a value to a dictionary, we just do dict[key] = value