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How to Find HTML Elements by Tag, Class, ID, CSS Selector, and Attribute in BeautifulSoup
Parse an HTML string with BeautifulSoup and demonstrate five distinct ways to locate elements: by tag name, by class, by ID, by CSS selector, and by attribute.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html_content = """
<html><body>
<h1 id="title" class="heading">Hello World</h1>
<p class="content">First paragraph</p>
<p class="content special">Second paragraph</p>
<a href="https://example.com" class="link">Click here</a>
<div id="footer">
<p>© 2024</p>
…Merge Multiple PDF Files into One Document in Python
Combines multiple PDF files into a single PDF document using the PyPDF2 library's PdfMerger class.
import PyPDF2
def merge_pdfs(input_paths, output_path):
merger = PyPDF2.PdfMerger()
for path in input_paths:
merger.append(path)
merger.write(output_path)
merger.close()
print(f"Merged {len(input_paths)} PDFs into '{output_path}'.")
if __name__ == "__main__":
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