Retrieving multiple tags via beautifulsoup css selector

Question

Is there any way to provide multiple arguments to beautifulsoup's select method?

I'm retrieving data via soup.select('div[class^="TypeA"]'. This fetches me all the divs where classes match the pattern TypeA. I'm interested in retrieving, in addition, another div where class="TypeB" (exact match).

Now I can possibly do this in two separate passes, e.g. something like:

r = requests.get(jurl)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,"lxml")
list1 = []
#get typeA divs
for div in soup.select('div[class^="TypeA"]'):
    t = [text for text in div.stripped_strings]
    list1.append(t)
list2 = []
#get typeB divs
for div in soup.select('div[class^="TypeB"]'):
    t = [text for text in div.stripped_strings]
    list2.append(t)
#combine the two into tuples. Both lists are of the same size
list3 = []
count = 0
for item in list1:
    list3.append((item,list2[count]))
    count += 1    
print list3

But is it possible to do it in a single pass? Going through the documentation, it's not immediately obvious how this can be done.

Answer 1

soup.select('div[class^="TypeA"], div[class^="TypeB"]')

Use , to use multiple selectors

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