How to write the output to html file with Python BeautifulSoup

Question

I modified an html file by removing some of the tags using beautifulsoup. Now I want to write the results back in a html file. My code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from bs4 import Comment  soup = BeautifulSoup(open('1.html'),"html.parser")  [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('script')] [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('style')] [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('meta')] [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all('noscript')] [x.extract() for x in soup.find_all(text=lambda text:isinstance(text, Comment))] html =soup.contents for i in html:     print i  html = soup.prettify("utf-8") with open("output1.html", "wb") as file:     file.write(html) 

Since I used soup.prettify, it generates html like this:

<p>     <strong>      BATAM.TRIBUNNEWS.COM, BINTAN     </strong>     - Tradisi pedang pora mewarnai serah terima jabatan pejabat di     <a href="http://batam.tribunnews.com/tag/polres/" title="Polres">      Polres     </a>     <a href="http://batam.tribunnews.com/tag/bintan/" title="Bintan">      Bintan     </a>     , Senin (3/10/2016).    </p> 

I want to get the result like print i does:

<p><strong>BATAM.TRIBUNNEWS.COM, BINTAN</strong> - Tradisi pedang pora mewarnai serah terima jabatan pejabat di <a href="http://batam.tribunnews.com/tag/polres/" title="Polres">Polres</a> <a href="http://batam.tribunnews.com/tag/bintan/" title="Bintan">Bintan</a>, Senin (3/10/2016).</p> <p>Empat perwira baru Senin itu diminta cepat bekerja. Tumpukan pekerjaan rumah sudah menanti di meja masing masing.</p> 

How can I get a result the same as print i (ie. so the tag and its content appear on the same line)? Thanks.

Answer 1

Just convert the soup instance to string and write:

with open("output1.html", "w") as file:     file.write(str(soup))