How to replace all empty spaces and new line from text extracted from json using beautiful soup ?

Question

In a container of div with a specific class, I have some text with different id's dd , dl and dt having spaces and lines and some special character like \\, ? etc. How to get rid of it ?

container = soup.find_all(name="div", attrs={"class":"4_square"})

size of container is 1. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You may try to find all dd and dt and then replace all special characters and empty spaces by replacing it to the default value. I have mentioned below code that you may try.

subject = container[0]
for i in range (0,len(subject.dl.findAll('dd'))):
    temp = subject.dl.find_all('dt')[i].text.strip('\n').replace('\n','').replace(' ','').replace('\?','')
    temp1 = subject.dl.find_all('dd')[i].text.strip('\n').replace('\n','').replace(' ','').replace('\?','')

temp and temp1 will give you the text. I hope this works for you.