How to get HTML page meta description with BeautifulSoup and Python?

In Python, the simplest way to get page description with BeautifulSoup is to use the following syntax:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlStr, features="html5lib")

# Find description in meta <meta name="description"...
description = soup.find("meta", attrs={'name':'description'})
print (description["content"])

# Find description in meta <meta property="og:description" ...
description = soup.find("meta", property="og:description")
print (description["content"])