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I have an html file:
...
<span class="value">401<span class="Suffix">st</span></span>
...
and I want to get only first span tag text which is 401 but when I run:
>>> get_text = soup.find(class_ = 'value').text
>>> print(get_text)
401st
the output contains inner spans text(st).
Use .strings. This is a @property that gives a generator of individual string elements. .text or .get_text is what joins those strings together.
>>> soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup('<span class="value">401<span class="Suffix">st</span></span>')
>>> t = soup.find(class_='value')
>>> next(t.strings)
'401'
>>> list(t.strings)
['401', 'st']
You need to use recursive=False in BeautifulSoup
<span class="value">401<span class="Suffix">st</span></span>
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
all_parent_p = soup.find_all('p', recursive=False)
for parent_p in all_parent_p:
ptext = parent_p.find(text=True, recursive=False)
This will work fine:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
s = '''<span class="value">401<span class="Suffix">st</span></span>'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(s, 'html.parser')
get_text = soup.find(class_='value')
print(get_text.contents[0])
Output
401