Beautiful Soup string method behaving weirdly

I'm trying to get an image in this page - http://www.bkstr.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CourseMaterialsResultsView?catalogId=10001&categoryId=9604&storeId=10161&am开发者_开发技巧p;langId=-1&programId=562&termId=100020629&divisionDisplayName=Stanford&departmentDisplayName=MATH&courseDisplayName=51&sectionDisplayName=01&demoKey=d&purpose=browse

I do the normal urllib open stuff (you need to track cookies if anyone's going to follow along) and do this

data =  soup.findAll("div",{"class":"efMaterialImage left"))

which works fine.

Weirdly, when I do test = data.string, and print the result, console shows 'None'.

Any idea why?

the findAll returns a list of matches, not a single match. A Python list does not have the attribute "string", however.

Try data[0] instead.

Edit:

String only seems to work if the tag has one child and its a string. <div>something</div> would work, but <div><p>something</p></div> wouldn't. Use more selectors or use .contents instead.