remove trailing / from col tag

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Jul 2, 2024, 11:37:41 AM (17 hours ago) Jul 2

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Hey...

Anyone know how to make bs4 remove the training / from a col tag?

Here is a snippet of code that adds a colgroup to the first table in a html doc

def add_colgroup(html: str):

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html5lib')

table = soup.table

headers = table.find_all('th')

colgroup = soup.new_tag('colgroup')

for _ in headers:

col = soup.new_tag('col')

col.encode(formatter='html5')

col['style'] = 'text-align: left;width: auto'

colgroup.insert(1, col)

table.insert(1, colgroup)

return soup.prettify()

It creates the following;

<colgroup>

</colgroup>

How do I remove the trailing / ?

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