Calling and using an attribute stored in variable (using Beautifulsoup 4)

Question

I want to call a Beautiful Soup attributes (eg. class_, href, id) from a variable to use it in functions such as this one:

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Answer 1

You can pass a dictionary instead:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data='
xxx 
 
yyy
 
 zzz
'
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")

def removeAttrib(soup, tag, argdict):

    for x in soup.findAll(tag, argdict):
        x.decompose()

removeAttrib(soup, "p", {"class": "story"})