BeautifulSoup breaks the HTML page into several types of objects.

Tags

A Tag corresponds to an HTML Tag in the original document. These lines of code:

soup = BeautifulSoup('<div id="example">An example div</div><p>An example p tag</p>')
print(soup.div)

Would produce output that looks like:

<div id="example">An example div</div>

Accessing a tag from the BeautifulSoup object in this way will get the first tag of that type on the page.

You can get the name of the tag using .name and a dictionary representing the attributes of the tag using .attrs:

print(soup.div.name)
print(soup.div.attrs)

div
{'id': 'example'}

NavigableStrings

NavigableStrings are the pieces of text that are in the HTML tags on the page. You can get the string inside of the tag by calling .string:

print(soup.div.string)

An example div