[Fixed]-Why do I keep getting 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'a' in django app?

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The html is broken, the section tags are a mess, I have had success using html5lib for parsing badly broken html with bs4:

In [21]: h = """<section class="videos"
   ....: <section class="box">
   ....: <a href="/videos/video.php?v=wshhH0xVL2LP4hFb0liu" class="video-box">
   ....:     <img src="http://hw-static.exampl.net/.jpg" width="222" height="125" alt="">
   ....: </a>
   ....: <strong class="title"><a href="/videos/video.php?v=wshhH0xVL2LP4hFb0liu">Teen "Allegedly" </a></strong>
   ....: <div>
   ....:     <span class="views">11,323</span>
   ....:     <span class="comments"><a href="http://www.example.net/v" data-disqus-identifier="94137">44</a></span>
   ....: </div>"""

In [22]: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

In [23]: soup = BeautifulSoup(h, 'html5lib')

In [24]: divs = soup.select_one('section.videos')

In [25]: img = divs.find('img').get('src')

In [26]: text = divs.strong.a.text

In [27]: link = divs.a.get('href')

In [28]: img
Out[28]: u'http://hw-static.exampl.net/.jpg'

In [29]: text
Out[29]: u'Teen "Allegedly" '

In [30]: link
Out[30]: u'/videos/video.php?v=wshhH0xVL2LP4hFb0liu'

The correct html should look something like:

<section class ="videos">
        <section class="box">
            <a href="/videos/video.php?v=wshhH0xVL2LP4hFb0liu" class="video-box">
                <img src="http://hw-static.exampl.net/.jpg" width="222" height="125" alt="">
            </a>
            <strong class="title"><a href="/videos/video.php?v=wshhH0xVL2LP4hFb0liu">Teen "Allegedly" </a></strong>
        </section>
        <div>
            <span class="views">11,323</span>
            <span class="comments"><a href="http://www.example.net/v" data-disqus-identifier="94137">44</a></span>
        </div>
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👤Padraic Cunningham

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