How to shuffle only p tags (with their structure)

[Unk]

Is there any way to get all p tags from html then shuffle them and put them back to html where we got them with their structure.

I tried 12+hrs still can't get the solution

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import random

with open('scram.html') as file:

    html_content = file.read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')

p_tags = soup.find_all('p')

shuffled_p = p_tags[:]

random.shuffle(shuffled_p)

for tag in p_tags:

    childs = tag.parent.find_all(recursive=False)

    parent_ = childs[0].parent

    shuffled_parent = soup.new_tag(parent_.name)

    for child in childs:

        if child in p_tags:

            shuffled_parent.append(shuffled_p[0])

            shuffled_p.pop(0)

        else:

            shuffled_parent.append(child)

    parent_.replace_with(shuffled_parent)

modified_html = str(soup)

with open('scram__.html', 'w') as file:

    file.write(modified_html)

[Isaac Muse]

Yeah, you can do something like this. There are probably lots of ways to do this, this is just one.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag import random with open('scram.html') as file: html_content = file.read() soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser') def get_position(tag): """Get the position of the p tag and return the parent and the position under the parent.""" parent = tag.parent for e, child in enumerate(parent.children): if isinstance(child, Tag) and child is tag: return parent, e raise RuntimeError('Could not find tag position under a parent') p_tags = soup.css.select('p') tag_positions = [get_position(p) for p in p_tags] random.shuffle(tag_positions) for pos, p in zip(tag_positions, p_tags): parent, index = pos parent.insert(index, p) with open('scram2.html', 'wb') as file: file.write(soup.encode())

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