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Beautiful Soup | insert method
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expand_more Beautiful Soup's Tag.insert(~) method adds the provided input to a tag's content at the provided numeric position.
Parameters
1. position | number
The index at which to place the element.
2. new_child | string
The string or element to insert.
Examples
Consider the following HTML:
my_html = """<div><p>Alex</p><p id="bob">Bob</p><p>Cathy</p></div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
Here, there are 5 locations where we can insert new content:
my_html = """<div> * <p>Alex</p> * <p id="bob">Bob</p> * <p>Cathy</p> * </div> *"""
The 5 locations are indicated by a *.
NOTE
To insert a string or element at the last *, you should use Tag.append(~) method instead.
Let's insert some string at the 3nd * (i.e. 2nd index):
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#insert
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