How to extract a NavigableString, if html code contains line breaks

[Evgeny]

Hi,

I am trying to extract a NavigableString object from html.

The idea is to be able to further manipulate it with string.replace_with("new string")

In the following example everything works fine

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 

html = """ <p><b>my string</b></p> """ 

soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"html.parser") soup.p.string.replace_with("New string") 

print(soup) 

# Output is '<p><b>New string</b></p>'

However if html code itself contains line breaks, then NavigableString is not extracted, instead a None is returned

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 

html = """ 

<p> 

   <b>my string</b> 

</p>

""" 

soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"html.parser") soup.p.string.replace_with("New string") 

print(soup) # Output is: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace_with'

So, the question is how to extract a NavigableString, if html code contains line breaks. I know that get_text(strip=True) will work, but it will return just a text, not a NavigableString, so I will not be able to further manipulate it.