Python BeautifulSoup: wildcard attribute/id search

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You can provide a callable as a filter:

dates = soup.findAll("div", {"id" : lambda L: L and L.startswith('date')})

Or as @DSM points out

dates = soup.findAll("div", {"id" : re.compile('date.*')})

as BeautifulSoup will recognise a RegExp object and call its .match() method.

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