Stripping comments
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Maciej Bliziński
Sep 22, 2009, 6:06:04 AM9/22/09
to beautifulsoup
Suppose I have a bit of HTML which looks like this: "<span>foo<!-- bar
--></span>". I want to extract the text contained within specific
tags, but without the commented-out text. Here, I'd like to extract
only "foo", without "bar".
>>> import BeautifulSoup as bs
>>> s = bs.BeautifulSoup("<span>foo<!-- bar --></span>")
>>> s.findAll()
[<span>foo<!-- bar --></span>]
This returns the whole <span/> tag, without stripping out the comment,
or returning the comment separately. Do you have any tips how to
extract only "foo" from the above HTML?
Maciej
--></span>". I want to extract the text contained within specific
tags, but without the commented-out text. Here, I'd like to extract
only "foo", without "bar".
>>> import BeautifulSoup as bs
>>> s = bs.BeautifulSoup("<span>foo<!-- bar --></span>")
>>> s.findAll()
[<span>foo<!-- bar --></span>]
This returns the whole <span/> tag, without stripping out the comment,
or returning the comment separately. Do you have any tips how to
extract only "foo" from the above HTML?
Maciej
jitu
Sep 23, 2009, 3:42:11 AM9/23/09
to beautifulsoup
#http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
documentation.html#Removing%20elements
comments = s.findAll(text=lambda text:isinstance(text, bs.Comment))
[comment.extract() for comment in comments]
s.findAll()
[<span>foo</span>]
Jitendra Nair
jite...@gslab.com
On Sep 22, 3:06 pm, Maciej Bliziński <maciej.blizin...@gmail.com>
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