Explain what "limit" means?

Question

import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
import collections

collections.Callable = collections.abc.Callable

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import ssl

# Ignore SSL certificate errors
ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
ctx.check_hostname = False
ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

url = input('Enter URL:')
count = input('Number of inputs: ')
position = input('Input position: ')

print('Getting:', url)

for i in range(0,int(count)):
    html = urllib.request.urlopen(url, context=ctx).read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

    # Get tags
    tags = soup('a',limit=int(position))
    for tag in tags:
        url = tag.get('href',None)

    print('Getting:', tag.get('href',None))

In this code, please explain what the limit function does?

I got completely different results after deleting the limit.

Answer 1

@boris-verkhovskiy is correct. According to Documentation: "It tells Beautiful Soup to stop collecting after a certain number of results are found."