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Html – How to find selected Option value of select tag using BeautifulSoup python

I am trying to get a selected value from a html select tag in python. well, it is successful while option attribute is set to selected="selected" but website i am trying to scrap has different option attribute some thing like that:-

html = """
        <select>
        <option value="">Please select a vlalue</option>
        <option selected value = "1">Male</option>
        <option value = "2">Female</option>
        </select>
    """
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

dropdown =  soup.find('select')
for options in dropdown.find_all('option', {'selected':"selected"}):
    if options is not null:
        print(options['value'])

so my above code can not get selected value: can any one figure it out?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    well i figure it out my self with the following code:-

    dropdown =  soup.find('select')
selected = dropdown.select_one('option[selected]')
print(selected['value'])

  2. 0

    just set True for dropdown.find

    dropdown = soup.find('select')

selected_option = dropdown.find('option', selected=True)
if selected_option:
print(selected_option['value'])

    This code will correctly find the selected option and print its value. The key change is using selected=True in the find method, which matches any option with the selected attribute, regardless of its value.

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