[FIXED] How to extract a list of anchor tag text within a class and append each text to different list using beautifulsoup?

Issue

I am trying to extract a list of anchor tag text within a class and append each text to different list using beautifulsoup as follows.

from urllib.request import Request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = """<p  class="comments">
<a href="/search/?searchtype=name1$amp; query=x11">comment1</a>, 
<a href="/search/?searchtype=name1$amp; query=x21">comment2 </a>
</p>
<p  class="comments">
<a href="/search/?searchtype=name1$amp; query=x31">comment3</a>, 
<a href="/search/?searchtype=name1$amp; query=x41">comment4 </a>
</p>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
data1 = soup.find_all("p", {"class": "comments"})    

x1 = []
x2 = []
    
for data in data1:
     get_a = data.find_all("a")
     text = ""
     for i in get_a:
         text = i.text
         x1.append(text)
         x2.append(text)
print(x1)
print(x2)

I get the following results:

['comment1', 'comment2 ', 'comment3', 'comment4 ']
['comment1', 'comment2 ', 'comment3', 'comment4 ']

But, I would like to get the desired output as follows:

x1= ['comment1', 'comment3']
x2= ['comment2', 'comment4']

I appreciate you for your help in advance.

Solution

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
data1 = soup.find("p", {"class": "comments"}).find_all('a')   
data2 = soup.find_all("p", {"class": "comments"})[1].find_all('a')   

x1 = []
x2 = []

for data in data1:
    x1.append(data.text)
for data in data2:
    x2.append(data.text)

print(x1)
print(x2)

Output:

['comment1', 'comment2 ']
['comment3', 'comment4 ']

Answered By - Sergey Karbivnichiy