How to extract different types of bold text and the text in between them using BeautifulSoup?

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I have to parse html documents having bold text as section identifiers. But bold text is in different forms , some examples shown below .

Using Beautiful soup I am able to parse them but have to write lot of if else to handle different types of bold. Is there an optimal way to find such bold text and the text in between with using so many if else.

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<div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:12px;font-size:10pt;">
  <font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">List 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Work</font>
</div>
<td style="vertical-align:top;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;">
  <div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;">
    <font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">List 1.</font>
  </div>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:top;padding-left:2px;padding-top:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-right:2px;">
  <div style="text-align:left;font-size:10pt;">
    <font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Work.</font>
  </div>
</td>
<p style="font-family:times;text-align:justify">
  <font size="2">
    <a name="de42901_List_1._Work"> </a>
    <a name="toc_de42901_2"> </a>
  </font>
  <font size="2"><b>  List&nbsp;1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Work    <br>    </b></font>
</p>
<p style="font-family:times;text-align:justify">
  <font size="2">
    <a name="da18101_List_1._Work"> </a>
    <a name="toc_da18101_3"> </a>
  </font>
  <font size="2"><b>  List&nbsp;1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></font>
  <font size="2"><b><i>Work    <br>    </i></b></font>
</p>

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1 Answers

use the split and join function to remove unwanted /n /b /t and &nbsp:

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
data = soup.find_all('b')
for i in data :
    final = ' '.join([x for x in i.text.split()])
    print (final)

it will arrange your data in same format, hope it resolves your query

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