BeautifulSoup different behavior in Pythonista?

[rmanly]

Can anyone help me to understand why this works in OS X but not in Pythonista?

https://gist.github.com/rmanly/7648823

For those who do not want to be bothered to click the link it is only 4 lines of code...7 with the imports. ;)

Also, on the interactive console in Pythonista why do things like 'soup.p', 'soup.a' etc. not work.

[RainmanNoodles]

Weird. I think it may be a bug. ALSO: it's not fixed by Pythonista 1.4.

In the meantime, try this:

import requests
import webbrowser
import re

page = requests.get('http://xkcd.com')
comic = re.search("http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^\.]*.png",page.text).group()
webbrowser.open(comic)

You can even snag the alt text:

alt = re.search('src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/[^\.]*.png"\s*title="([^"]*)"\s*alt=',page.text).groups()[0]

[rmanly]

Hrmmm...

Thanks for the response.