
        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = """
   <div id="people">
          <p>Alex</p>
          <div>
                 <p>Bob</p>
                 <p>Cathy</p>
          </div>
   <div>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

By default, the find_all(~) method looks for matches recursively:


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.find(id="people").find_all("p"):
       print(el)
                
            
            <p>Alex</p>
<p>Bob</p>
<p>Cathy</p>

To look for matches that are direct descendants only, set recursive=False, like so:


        
        
            
                
                
                    for el in soup.find(id="people").find_all("p", recursive=False):
       print(el)
                
            
            <p>Alex</p>

Here, there is only one element with the p tag that is directly under the <div id="people">~</div>.

Published by Isshin Inada

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