Python3 Beautifulsoup4 extracting text from multiple container siblings - python-3.x

Question

I am new to python, and I am trying to using beautifulsoup to extract only the text from a group of tags. The first tag is 'name' the second is 'date' I can grab the text either from name, or date just not together. Here is the html code to the page I am trying to scrape
<div class="results">
<h1>
Info Records
</h1>
<div class="group">
<a class="name" href="https://" target="_blank">
Firstname, Lastname
</a>
<br/>
<span class="date">
8/24/2020: Text info
</span>
</div>
<div class="group">
<a class="name" href="https://" target="_blank">
Different Firstname, Different Lastname
</a>
<br/>
<span class="date">
8/23/2020: Different Text Info
</span>
</div>
for name I use this code which pulls the names, and prints them to terminal for the dates I change the class name to 'date'
for arrest in soup.find_all('a', {'class': 'name'}):
name = arrest.text
print(name)
The html has about 20 names, and dates I only posted the first 2. When I try to print both classes together it doesn't work.
test = soup.find_all("div", {"class": ["name", "date"]})
print(test)
Also what is working doesn't write to text file. Ideally what I am trying to accomplish is something like this to be added to a output file:
firsname lastname
8/24/2020 Text info
firstname last name
8/23/20920 different text info
Any advice would be helpful. I've been reading all day trying to figure it out.

Answer 1

Option 1: use a CSS selector.
Option 2: use zip()
1:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = """YOUR ABOVE HTML SNIPPET"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
with open("output.txt", "w") as f:
# select `name` and `date` class
for tags in soup.select(".name, .date"):
f.write(tags.text.strip() + "\n")
2:
with open("output.txt", "w") as f:
for name, date in zip(
soup.find_all("a", {"class": "name"}), soup.find_all("span", {"class": "date"})
):
f.write(name.text.strip() + "\n")
f.write(date.text.strip() + "\n")
output.txt:
Firstname, Lastname
8/24/2020: Text info
Different Firstname, Different Lastname
8/23/2020: Different Text Info