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

all credit to MYGz and commandlineluser

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data='
xxx 
 
yyy
 
 zzz
'


def removeAttrib(data, tag, kwargs):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
    for x in soup.findAll(tag, kwargs):
        for key in kwargs:
            # print(key) #>>class           
            x.attrs.pop(key, None) # attrs: to access the actual dict 
            #del x[key] would work also but will throw a KeyError if no key

    print(soup)           
    return soup

data=removeAttrib(data,"p",{"class":"story"})