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This is an unordered list (<ul>) extracted from the BeautifulSoup Home Page. What's the code to get all the anchor tags (<a>) if we have already made soup from the HTML?

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    <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc.zh/">这篇文档当然还有中文版.</a></p></li>
    <li><p>このページは日本語で利用できます(<a class="reference external" href="http://kondou.com/BS4/">外部リンク</a>)</p></li>
    <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc.ko/">이 문서는 한국어 번역도 가능합니다.</a></p></li>
    <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc.ptbr">Este documento também está disponível em Português do Brasil.</a></p></li>
    <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc.ru/">Эта документация доступна на русском языке.</a></p></li>
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soup.find_all("a")

Below is a simplified version of the Beautiful Soup Hall of Fame. The HTML code comes from the Beautiful Soup home page.

If soup was made from the HTML below, how would you extract only the anchor tags from inside the unordered list? (So excluding the first anchor tag <a name="HallOfFame"><h2>Hall of Fame</h2></a>?

<a name="HallOfFame"><h2>Hall of Fame</h2></a>
<p>Over the years, Beautiful Soup has been used in hundreds of different projects.</p>
<ul>
<li>Alexander Harrowell uses Beautiful Soup to <a href="http://www.harrowell.org.uk/viktormap.html">track the business activities</a> of an arms merchant.</li>
<li>The developers of Python itself used Beautiful Soup to <ahref="http://svn.python.org/view/tracker/importer/">migrate the Pythonbug tracker from Sourceforge to Roundup</a>.</li>
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soup.select("li a")

If we make soup with the HTML code below, how would you get hold of the value of maxlength?

<form method="get" action="/search/">
 <input type="text" name="q" maxlength="255" value=""></input>
</form>

There's no shame in looking at the documentation!

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

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form_tag = soup.find("input")
max_length = form_tag.get("maxlength")