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Beautiful Soup Tag | contents property
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The Tag.contents property in Beautiful Soup returns a list that contains all the immediate child elements and text nodes (i.e. Navigable String).
Examples
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <div id="names"> <p>Alex</p> <p>Bob</p> <p>Cathy</p> </div>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
To get all the direct child elements and text nodes as a list:
['\n', <p>Alex</p>, '\n', <p>Bob</p>, '\n', <p>Cathy</p>, '\n']
Here, the text nodes are "\n", which represent a new line.
Most of the time, you just want the elements without the text nodes. You can do this using the find_all(~) method:
Notice how text nodes are excluded.
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Official Beautiful Soup Documentation
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#contents-and-children
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