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Getting number of direct child elements of a tag in Beautiful Soup
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To get the number of direct child elements of a tag, first fetch all the direct child elements of the tag using the find_all(recursive=False) method, and then just check its length using len(~).
Example
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <div id="root"> <p>Alex/p> <div id="sub"> <p>Bob</p> </div> </div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
To get the number of direct child elements of <div id="root">~</p>:
To get the number of direct child elements of <div id="sub">~</div>:
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