Lxml equivalent to BeautifulSoup “OR” syntax?

No, lxml does not provide the "find first or return None" method you're looking for. Just use (select(soup) or None)0 if you need that, or write a function to do it for you! /usr/bin/python import lxml.

Html import lxml. Cssselect soup = lxml.html. Fromstring(""" cssselect.

CSSSelector("a.yyy. Zzz, a. Yyy") print lxml.html.

Tostring(s).strip() for s in select(soup) print (select(soup) or None)0 Ok, so soup. Find('a') would indeed find first a element or None as you expect. Trouble is, it doesn't appear to support the rich XPath syntax needed for CSSSelector.

No, lxml does not provide the "find first or return None" method you're looking for. Just use (select(soup) or None)0 if you need that, or write a function to do it for you. #!

/usr/bin/python import lxml. Html import lxml. Cssselect soup = lxml.html.

Fromstring(""" cssselect. CSSSelector("a.yyy. Zzz, a.

Yyy") print lxml.html. Tostring(s).strip() for s in select(soup) print (select(soup) or None)0 Ok, so soup. Find('a') would indeed find first a element or None as you expect.

Trouble is, it doesn't appear to support the rich XPath syntax needed for CSSSelector.

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