BeautifulSoup to find text within <img

Question

Here is what I get back from this Python line of code

listm = soup.findAll(\'td\',{\'class\':\'thumb\'})

when I iterate over the listm, her

Answer 1

Try this:

listm = soup.findAll('td',{'class':'thumb'})
for elem in listm:
    print elem('img')[0]['alt']

This should find the img tag within each td and print the values of the alt attribute.

EDIT:

You should not assume the existence of the img tag. Do this instead:

listm = soup.findAll('td',{'class':'thumb'})
for elem in listm:
    imgs = elem('img')
    if imgs:
        print imgs['alt']

Answer 2

Your td elements contain some nested elements; search for the img tag within each td element, then take the alt attribute with an item lookup:

for td in listm:
    img = td.find('img')
    if img is not None:
        print img['alt']