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Beautiful Soup | next_elements property
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expand_more In Beautiful Soup, the next_elements
property of a tag or a string returns a generator used to iterate over all the next strings or tags in the parse tree.
Examples
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <p>Alex</p> <p>Bob</p>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
Let's get the next_elements
of <p>Alex</p>
and loop through the resulting generator:
p_alex = soup.find("p")for element in p_alex.next_elements: print(element)
<p>Alex</p>Alex <p>Bob</p>Bob
Notice how the inner string is registered as the next element. The takeaway here is that the order goes from tag to inner string. Furthermore, there is a new line character \n
between <p>Alex</p>
and <p>Bob</p>
which is why we see blank lines in the output.
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#next-elements-and-previous-elements
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