[Tutor] BeautifulSoup - deleting tags

[jonasmg at softhome.net]

Kent Johnson writes: 

> jonasmg at softhome.net wrote:
>> Is possible deleting all tags from a text and how?  
>> 
>> i.e.:  
>> 
>> s='<td><a href="..." title="...">foo bar</a>;<br />
>> <a href="..." title="...">foo2</a> <a href="..." 
>> title="...">bar2</a></td>'  
>> 
>> so, I would get only: foo bar, foo2, bar2
> 
> How about this? 
> 
> In [1]: import BeautifulSoup 
> 
> In [2]: s=BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup('''<td><a href="..." title="...">foo 
> bar</a>;<br />
>    ...: <a href="..." title="...">foo2</a> <a href="..." 
> title="...">bar2</a></td>''') 
> 
> In [4]: ' '.join(i.string for i in s.fetch() if i.string)
> Out[4]: 'foo bar foo2 bar2' 
> 
> 
> Here are a couple of tag strippers that don't use BS:
> http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/cleanhtml.py
> http://www.oluyede.org/blog/2006/02/13/html-stripper/ 
> 
> Kent 
> 

Another way (valid only for this case): 

: for i in s.fetch('a'): print i.string