How to print html without breaks using python, beautifulsoup?

Question

im trying print html using beautifulsoup like this:

load = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(load, 'lxml')
characteristics = soup.find('table', { 'class' : 'characteristics-table'})
print characteristics

Get this:

<table class="characteristics-table">
<tr class="characteristics alt">
<td class="name">
Zīmols
</td>
<td>
Emporio Armani</td>
</tr>
<tr class="characteristics">
<td class="name">
<b>Mehānisma tips</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Mehāniskie automātiskie</b></td>
</tr>...

But need something like this:

<table class="characteristics-table"><tr class="characteristics alt"><td class="name">Zīmols</td><td>...

How to do it?

Answer 1

If you just want to remove the newlines in characteristics , then use str.replace to remove them, by replacing newlines with an empty string '' :

print str(characteristics).replace('\n', '').replace('\r\n', '')

The first one replaces unix-style newlines and the second one, applied to the result of the first, replaces windows-style newlines.

Edit: the .replace has to be applied to the str() of the returned obj from beautifulsoup's find.

Answer 2

''.join(characteristics.split('\n'))   #or \r\n on Windows