I started using BeautifulSoup a few weeks ago to help write more exact unit tests for front end design. Instead of saying "make sure this page contains abcdef",

I started using BeautifulSoup a few weeks ago to help write more exact unit tests for front end design. Instead of saying "make sure this page contains abcdef", I can say "pull the exact section that abcdef is supposed to be in, and make sure it is (or conversely, make sure it's NOT showing up when it's not supposed to). If you have access to the HTML code, you can make it a lot easier on yourself by putting eyecatcher IDs or classes in elements and starting from there.