How to access a tag called "name" in BeautifulSoup

Question

I want to access a tag called as "name" such as:

<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastName>Yeşil</lastName><phone>+90 333 9695395</phone></contact>

Since "name" is a property of a BeautifulSoup tag object, I cannot access the child tag name:

>>> c1
<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastname>Yeşil</lastname><phone>+90 333 9695395</p
hone></contact>
>>> c1.name
'contact'
>>> c1.lastname
<lastname>Yeşil</lastname>

Answer 1

You can try like this,

>>> soup=BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(content).findAll('name')
>>> for field in soup:
...     print field
... 
<name>Yesügey</name>

Or

print soup.find('name').string

Answer 2

Here's what I got:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
soup = '<contact><name>Yesügey</name><lastName>Yeşil</lastName><phone>+90 333 9695395</phone></contact>'
soup = BS(soup)
print soup.find('name').string
# Prints YesĂźgey

So instead of calling the name tag, I simply find it and get what's inside it :).