Extract text from within div tag using BeautifulSoup 4 in Python

Question

I am trying to extract text from within div tag using BeautifulSoup4 and python. The following html code is stored in a file (example.html)

My HTML:

<table class="NZX1058422900" cols="20" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 1496px;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<td class="A10dbmytr2499b">
<div class="VWP1058422499" alt="Total Cases: 5 - Level 1, Level 2, or On Hold 2 - Completed" title="Total Cases: 5 - Level 1, Level 2, On Hold 2 - Completed">5/2</div>
</td>
</tbody>
</table>

I want the output to look like below:
Total Cases: 
5 - Level 1, Level 2, or On Hold
2 - Completed

So far my code is:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
openFile = open("C:\\example.html")
readFile = openFile.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(readFile, "lxml")

I have tried below code without any success:

soup.find("div", class_="VWP1058422499")

Can anyone help as how above data can be extracted?

Answer 1

alt = soup.find("div", {"class":"VWP1058422499"}).get("alt")
print(alt.text) #or just print(alt)

Answer 2

Expanding the answer from @so1989 as you are also wondering how to print with the format you have specified, I would suggest this approach:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

openFile = open("C:\\example.html")
readFile = openFile.read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(readFile, "lxml")
alt = soup.find("div", {"class":"VWP1058422499"}).get("alt").split()

for i, char in enumerate(alt):
    if char == '-':
        alt[i-2] = alt[i-2] + '\n'
    if char[0] in ['-', 'C', 'L', 'o']:
        alt[i] = ' ' + alt[i]

alt = ''.join(alt)
print(alt)