How can I translate this XPath expression to BeautifulSoup?

Question

In answer to a previous question, several people suggested that I use BeautifulSoup for my project. I\'ve been struggling with their documentation and I just cannot parse it

Answer 1

It seems that you are using BeautifulSoup 3.1

I suggest reverting to BeautifulSoup 3.0.7 (because of this problem)

I just tested with 3.0.7 and got the results you expect:

>>> soup.findAll(href=re.compile(r'/cabel'))
[Abel, Christian]

Testing with BeautifulSoup 3.1 gets the results you are seeing. There is probably a malformed tag in the html but I didn't see what it was in a quick look.