Python: BeautifulSoup - get an attribute value based on the name attribute

Question

I want to print an attribute value based on its name, take for example

I want to do something

Answer 1

theharshest's answer is the best solution, but FYI the problem you were encountering has to do with the fact that a Tag object in Beautiful Soup acts like a Python dictionary. If you access tag['name'] on a tag that doesn't have a 'name' attribute, you'll get a KeyError.