Beautiful soup getting the first child

Answer 1

div.children returns an iterator.

for div in nsoup.find_all(class_='cities'):
    for childdiv in div.find_all('div'):
        print (childdiv.string) #london, york

AttributeError was raised, because of non-tags like '\n' are in .children. just use proper child selector to find the specific div.

(more edit) can't reproduce your exceptions - here's what I've done:

In [137]: print foo.prettify()

 

  London
 
 

  York
 


In [138]: for div in foo.find_all(class_ = 'cities'):
   .....:     for childdiv in div.find_all('div'):
   .....:         print childdiv.string
   .....: 
 London 
 York 

In [139]: for div in foo.find_all(class_ = 'cities'):
   .....:     for childdiv in div.find_all('div'):
   .....:         print childdiv.string, childdiv['id']
   .....: 
 London  3232
 York  131