Using BeautifulSoup to find all elements starting with a given letter

Question

If I want to find all <p> elementswith id=test with BeautifulSoup, I use :

for item in soup.findAll('p', {"id": "test"}):

How do I find every

element with an ID starting with a specific letter - let's say "t"?

I tried "t*" but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

try:

import re
for item in soup.findAll('p', {"id": re.compile('^t')}):