如何检查 BeautifulSoup 标签是否是某个标签？

Question

If I find a certain tag using beautifulsoup :

styling = paragraphs.find_all('w:rpr')

I look at the next tag. I only want to use that tag if it is a <w:t> tag. How do I check what type of tag the next tag is?

I tried element.find_next_sibling().startswith('<w:t') for the element but it says NoneType object is not callable . I also tried element.find_next_sibling().find_all('<w:t'>) but it doesn't return anything.

for element in styling:
    next = element.find_next_sibling()
    if(#next is a <w:t> tag):
        ...

i am using beautifulsoup and would like to stick with it and not add eTree or other parser if possible with bs4.

Answer 1

Using item.name you can see tag's name.

Problem is that between tags there are elements NavigableString which are also treated as sibling elements and they gives None .

You would have to skip these elements or you could get all siblings and use for loop to find first <w:t> and exit loop with break

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS

text = '''<div>
  <w:rpr></w:rpr>
  <w:t>A</w:t>
</div>'''

soup = BS(text, 'html.parser')

all_wrpr = soup.find_all('w:rpr')
for wrpr in all_wrpr:

    next_tag = wrpr.next_sibling
    print('name:', next_tag.name) # None

    next_tag = wrpr.next_sibling.next_sibling
    #next_tag = next_tag.next_sibling
    print('name:', next_tag.name) # w:t
    print('text:', next_tag.text) # A

#name: None
#name: w:t
#text: A

print('---')

all_siblings = wrpr.next_siblings
for item in all_siblings:
    if item.name == 'w:t':
       print('name:', item.name) # w:t
       print('text:', item.text) # A
       break # exit after first <w:t>

#name: w:t
#text: A    

---

EDIT: If you test code with HTML formated little different

text = '''<div>
  <w:rpr></w:rpr><w:t>A</w:t>
</div>'''

then there will be no NavigableString between tags and first method will fail but second method will still work.