CSS children selector (not being able to select all children) - html

Question

This is the image of what I'm trying to scrape using beautiful soup. But whenever I use the code shown below, I only get access to the first child. I am never able to get access to all the children. Can someone help me with this?
item = soup.select("ul.items > li")
print(len(item))

Answer 1

The problem can be fixed in 2 steps as follows:
Use select_one on soup to get the ul
Use find_all on ul to fetch all the li items.
Working solution:
# File name: soup-demo.py
inputHTML = """
<ul class="items">
<li class="class1">item 1</li>
<li class="class1">item 3</li>
<li class="class1">item 3</li>
</ul>
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(inputHTML, 'html.parser')
itemList = soup.select_one("ul", class_="items")
items = itemList.find_all("li")
print("Found ", len(items), " items")
for item in items:
print(item)
Output:
$ python3 soup-demo.py
Found 3 items
<li class="class1">item 1</li>
<li class="class1">item 3</li>
<li class="class1">item 3</li>

Answer 2

Maybe your version is wrong. This is OK.
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''
<ul class="items">
<li>1</li>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,features="lxml")
item = soup.select('ul.items>li')
print (len(item))
There's another solution here
from simplified_scrapy.simplified_doc import SimplifiedDoc
html = '''
<ul class="items">
<li>1</li>
<li>2</li>
</ul>
'''
doc = SimplifiedDoc(html)
item = doc.selects('ul.items>li')
print(len(item))
Here are more examples here