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theCowardlyFrench
theCowardlyFrench

Reputation: 228

Beautiful Soup returns element wrapped in <div> tags. How do I strip them?

I am trying to parse information from this web page: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=AAPL

The python code

list = [td.find('div') for td in soup1.find_all('td')]

returns 20 items. For example

print list[10]

returns

<div>100.60</div>

How do I simply have beautiful soup return "100.60". Alternatively, how could I strip the tags?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 124

Answers (1)

salmanwahed
salmanwahed

Reputation: 9647

You can get the text inside the tag using .text or .string method. In your case both will work. .text will return a unicode string and .string will return a NavigableString object.

print list[10].text

or,

print list[10].string

Check also the difference between .text and .string.

Also you can strip them using strip method for string objects. like,

list[10].text.strip()

Upvotes: 3

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