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Replacing inner text of a tag in Beautiful Soup
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schedule Jul 1, 2022
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expand_more To replace the inner text of a tag in Beautiful Soup, use the replace_with(~)
method.
Example
Consider the following HTML document:
my_html = """ <p>Alice</p>"""soup = BeautifulSoup(my_html)
To replace the text "Alice"
with "Bob"
:
<p>Bob</p>
Here, we're tapping into the string
property available to all Tag
objects.
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