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Preserve space when stripping HTML with Beautiful Soup

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

html = "<html><p>Para 1. Words</p><p>Merge. Para 2<blockquote>Quote 1<blockquote>Quote 2</p></html>"
print html
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
print u''.join(soup.findAll(text=True))

The out put of this code is "Para 1 WordsMerge. Para 2Quote 1Quote 2".

I don't want the last word of paragraph one merging with the first word of paragraph two. eg. "Para 1 Words Merge. Para 2 Quote 1 Quote 2". Can this be achieved using the BeautifulSoup library?

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seanieb Avatar asked Aug 16 '11 01:08

seanieb


1 Answers

And if you are using get_text() in version 4.x:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
...
...
soup.get_text(" ")
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Felix Avatar answered Nov 08 '22 06:11

Felix