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Appending multiple strings to a tag's content Appending to a tag's content Converting from tag object to string Getting the position of a tag Inserting an element at a specified position in a tag Inserting strings or elements after a tag Inserting strings or elements before a tag Removing both tag and inner content Removing inner content of a tag Replacing a tag and its inner content Replacing inner text of a tag Replacing the tag name of an element Stripping the tag of an element Wrapping a tag with another tag

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Converting from tag object to string in Beautiful Soup

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Python

Beautiful Soup

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Mar 10, 2022

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Example

Consider the following HTML document:


        
        
            
                
                
                    my_html = "<p>A cat sat on a mat</p>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)

To get the p tag as a string:


        
        
            
                
                
                    p_tag = soup.find("p")
html = str(p_tag)
print(html)
                
            
            <p>A cat sat on a mat</p>

To just keep the inner content of the tag as a string:


        
        
            
                
                
                    p_tag_text = soup.find("p").get_text()
print(p_tag_text)
print(type(p_tag_text))
                
            
            A cat sat on a mat
<class 'str'>

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