Extract Few Values with Beautiful Soup - tags

Question

<p class="">
Teacher:
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_0"
>Scott</a>
<span class="ghost">|</span>
Students:
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_1"
>Benedict</a>,
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_2"
>Chiwetel</a>,
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_3"
>Rachel</a>,
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_4"
>Benedict Wong</a>
</p>
I would like to extract teacher's name - "Scott" which is under the tag of "Teacher" and extract all students' name under the tag of "Students". I tried:
soup.find(lambda tag:tag) and it returned
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_0"
>Scott</a>
I think it is not a right approach. How the code should actually be to extract both the names under "teacher" and "students" tag?

Answer 1

Assuming that your HTML block won't change much when parsing other pages you can find your p tag by class ( Your example has none ) and verify if the Teacher text is present.
If it is get the .contents[1] from the p tag which is the first a on the element.
Next find all a tags on which the href attribute doesn't match your teachers.
Example:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
example = """<p class="">
Teacher:
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_0"
>Scott</a>
<span class="ghost">|</span>
Students:
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_1"
>Benedict</a>,
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_2"
>Chiwetel</a>,
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_3"
>Rachel</a>,
<a href="/name/nm12345/?ref_=adv_4"
>Benedict Wong</a>
</p>"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(example, "html.parser")
Classroom = soup.find(lambda x: "Teacher" in x.get_text())
if Classroom is not None:
Teacher = Classroom.contents[1]
TeacherUrl = Teacher["href"]
Students = Classroom.find_all(lambda tag: tag.has_attr('href') and TeacherUrl not in tag["href"])
print (Teacher.text)
for Student in Students:
print (Student.text)
Which outputs:
Scott
Benedict
Chiwetel
Rachel
Benedict Wong