How to get multiple class in one query using Beautiful Soup

Question

I want to find td with class="s" or class="sb" in the following html ``` test15,774.04,481.05,444.06,615.06,858.0 test25,774.04,481.05,444.06,615.06,858.0 ``` I'm using the following code right now. But can only get class equal "S". Is it possible to get both "s" and "sb" in one Beautiful Soup find_all query? ``` soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url).read(),"lxml"); for item in soup.find_all("td", { "class" : "s" }): ```

Accepted Answer

You can do this using beautiful soup's support for regular expressions.

```
import re
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url).read(),"lxml");
for item in soup.find_all("td", { "class" : re.compile(r"^(s|sb)$") })
```

This regular expression matches:

`^` - the start of the string

`(s|sb)` - either the string `'s'` or the string `'sb'`

`$` - the end of the string

How to get multiple class in one query using Beautiful Soup

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