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       <p>A cat sat</p>
       <p>on a mat</p>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

To find all elements that contain the words "cat" and "mat":


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_regex = re.compile("[cm]at")
matched_strings = soup.find_all(text=my_regex)

for matched_string in matched_strings:
       print(matched_string.parent)
                
            
            <p>A cat sat</p>
<p>on a mat</p>

Since we've specified the text parameter, the return value of find_all(~) is a list of NavigableString objects. These objects are just like your standard Python string, except that they have helper properties and methods to navigate around the HTML document. Here, we're using its parent property, which returns the enclosing Tag object.

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