Beautiful Soup - Comparing the Objects

As per the beautiful soup, two navigable string or tag objects are equal if they represent the same HTML/XML markup.

Now let us see the below example, where the two <b> tags are treated as equal, even though they live in different parts of the object tree, because they both look like "<b>Java</b>".

Example - Comparing navigable strings

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = "<p>Learn <i>Python</i>, <b>Java</b>, advanced <i>Python</i> and advanced <b>Java</b>! from Tutorialspoint</p>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, "html.parser")
b1 = soup.find('b')
b2 = b1.find_next('b')
print(b1== b2)

print(b1 is b2)

Output

True
False

In the following examples, two NavigableString objects are compared.

Example - Comparing NavigableString objects

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
markup = "<p>Learn <i>Python</i>, <b>Java</b>, advanced <i>Python</i> and advanced <b>Java</b>! from Tutorialspoint</p>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup, "html.parser")
i1 = soup.find('i')
i2 = i1.find_next('i')
print(i1.string== i2.string)

print(i1.string is i2.string)

Output

True
False