extracting element and insert a space

Question

im parsing html using BeautifulSoup in python

i dont know how to insert a space when extracting text element

this is the code:

import BeautifulSoup
soup=BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup('<html>this<b>is</b>example</html>')
print soup.text

then output is

thisisexample

but i want to insert a space to this like

yes is example

how do i insert a space?

mouad · Accepted Answer

Use getText instead:

import BeautifulSoup
soup=BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup('<html>this<b>is</b>example</html>')

print soup.getText(separator=u' ')
# u'this is example'

unutbu · Answer

If your version of Beautifulsoup does not have getText then you could do this:

In [26]: ' '.join(soup.findAll(text=True))
Out[26]: u'this is example'

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