detecting the presence of text with BeautifulSoup

Question

i trying check the presence of text on certain page(if you send precendently the text will appear in this zone otherwize it's blank).

html= urlopen(single_link)
parsed= BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')

lastmessages = parsed.find('div',attrs={'id':'message-box'})
if lastmessages :
    print('Already Reached')
else:
     print('you can write your message')

<div class="lastMessage">
    <div class="mine messages">
        <div class="message last" id="msg-snd-1601248710299" dir="auto">
            Hello, and how are you ?
        </div>
        <div style="clear : both ;"></div>
        <div class="msg-status" id="msg-status-1601248710299" dir="rtl">
            <div class="send-state">
                Last message : &nbsp;
                <span class="r2">before 7:35 </span>
            </div>
            <div class="read-state">
                <span style="color : gray ;">&nbsp;–&nbsp;</span>
                Reading :
                &nbsp;
                <span class="r2">Not yet</span>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div style="clear : both ;"></div>
    </div>
</div>

my problem is i can't know how to find if the text "Hello, and how are you ?" exist or not ???

Answer 1

Simple solution

import bs4 

parsed= bs4.BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')
lastmessages = parsed.find('div', class_='message last')
if lastmessages :
    print(f'{lastmessages.text.strip()}')
else:
     print('No message')