How to add space around removed tags in BeautifulSoup

Question

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

html = '''<div class="thisText">
Poem <a href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edgar_allan_poe/poems/18848">The Raven</a>Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... </div>

<div class="thisText">
In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted..., part of<a href="http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edgar_allan_poe/poems/18848">The Haunted Palace</a>
</div>'''


soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
all_poems = soup.findAll("div", {"class": "thisText"})
for poems in all_poems:
print(poems.text)

I have this sample code and i cant find how to add spaces around the removed tags so when the text inside the <a href...> get formatted it can be readable and wont display like this:

PoemThe RavenOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...

In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted..., part ofThe Haunted Palace

Answer 1

get_text() in beautifoulsoup4 has an optional input called separator. You can use it as follows :

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
text = soup.get_text(separator=' ')