extracting element and insert a space

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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?

beautifulsoup html-parsing python
3 Answers

One may want to use also with strip argument

bs = BeautifulSoup("<html>this<b>is  </b>example</html>")
print(bs.get_text())  # thisis  example
print(bs.get_text(separator=" "))  # this is   example
print(bs.get_text(separator=" ", strip=True))  # this is example
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