select_one and select

I like the function soup.select() and soup.select_one(). Maybe you can add select_one to this repo? If the result is None, I can easily know that there are no match objects. Just like https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search Infact, I don’t know why you use limit to control the number of the results. I think people would need one or all of the results.

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Had a little time this morning, so I implemented the feature via #46. It will be in the 1.5.0 release. Not sure when that release is coming yet. Maybe not too far out. I imagine major releases will slow down moving forward as I feel the project has a solid feature base now, but I think I’ll at least get this one out within the week.

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And thanks for the css seletors you invented, like !=, that is what I need now.

Well, I didn’t ivent it, it was something other libraries have been using for a while. I know JQuery and the lxml CSSSelect library implement it. It seemed too logical and convenient not to add here as well.

I like the precompile. It looks like the re module (re.compile).

Yeah, that was kind of my model when I wrote it. Seemed like if you had a script with known things you were looking for, instead of calling select over and over, and reparsing the selector string and building the search object, it would be best to:

1. Allow you to build that thing once and reuse it.

2. Cache them in case you didn’t think to precompile it to begin with.

Both of these the re module employs.