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Arevos · May 23rd, 2006, 11:45 AM

Well, presumably, if BeautifulSoup's fetchText function returns an empty list (an empty list is []), then it has found no text that says "Financial Highlights". So you could do something like:

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highlights = soup.fetchText(re.compile("Financial Highlights"))

if highlights == []:
   # There are no financial highlights

(Note the double equals (==). This tells Python you want to compare two values, rather than assign one value to another.)

May 23rd, 2006, 11:45 AM	#125
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Well, presumably, if BeautifulSoup's fetchText function returns an empty list (an empty list is []), then it has found no text that says "Financial Highlights". So you could do something like: (Toggle Plain Text) highlights = soup.fetchText(re.compile("Financial Highlights")) if highlights == []: # There are no financial highlights highlights = soup.fetchText(re.compile("Financial Highlights")) if highlights == []: # There are no financial highlights (Note the double equals (==). This tells Python you want to compare two values, rather than assign one value to another.)