selectForList [bs4]

##### select & get to extract a list of values/text from a bs4 Tag #####
## simplest version of confParse  [ https://pastebin.com/c0TjDmNE ] ####

### examples of usage at                                          ######
#####    solution1 of https://stackoverflow.com/a/74947523/6146136 OR ##
#####    section#2 of https://stackoverflow.com/a/74655334/6146136 #####

### if unfamiliar with CSS selectors, see                         ######
#### https://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#css-selectors ##
#####--> https://facelessuser.github.io/soupsieve/selectors/#selector ##
#### https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.php ################


##################### EXTRACT A SINGLE VLAUE from a bs4 Tag #####################
def selectGet(tagSoup, selector, targetAttr='', defaultVal=None):
    sel, ta =  [str(p).strip() if p else '' for p in [selector, targetAttr]]
    el, rVal = tagSoup.select_one(sel) if sel else tagSoup, defaultVal
    if el: rVal = el.get(ta,defaultVal) if ta else el.get_text(' ', strip=True)
    isClassList = ta=='class' and isinstance(rVal, list)
    return ' '.join(f'{r}' for r in rVal) if isClassList else rVal
#################################################################################


def selectForList(tagSoup, selectors, printList=False):
    if isinstance(selectors, dict):
        return dict(zip(selectors.keys(), selectForList(
            tagSoup, selectors.values(), printList)))

    selGen = (( list(sel if isinstance(sel, (tuple, list)) ## generate params
                else [sel])+[None]*2 )[:3] for sel in selectors)
    returnList = [  sel[0] if sel[1] == '"staticVal"' ## [allows placeholders]
                    else selectGet(tagSoup, *sel) for sel in selGen   ]

    if printList and not isinstance(printList,str): print(returnList)
    if isinstance(printList,str): print(*returnList, sep=printList)
    return returnList