Preserve in beautiful soup object
Question
I have my sample.htm file as follows:
<html><head>
<title>hello</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> Hello! he said. !</p>
</body>
</html>
I have my python code as follows:
with open('sample.htm', 'r',encoding='utf8') as f:
contents = f.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(contents, 'html.parser')
with open("sample-output.htm", "w", encoding='utf-8') as file:
file.write(str(soup))
This reads the sample.htm and writes to another sample-output.htm
The output of the above:
<html><head>
<title>hello</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> Hello! he said. !</p>
</body>
</html>
How can i preserve the after writing to the file.
3 answers
solution1
0 2022-03-04 17:38:40
You could always use regex:
import re
import BeautifulSoup
text = '<p> Hello! he said. !</p>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(text,'html.parser')
# text_str = str(soup)
text_str = re.sub(r"\xa0"," ", str(soup))
I think the BeautifulSoup import may be wrong, but this example is good enough to get the point across. I know this is post-soupify, but I hope it offers a different perspective at a solution.
solution2
0 2022-03-04 17:43:40
You could just use str.replace :
>>> text_str.replace("\xa0", " ")
'<p> Hello! he said. !</p>'
Where you could use this in your code?
with open("sample-output.htm", "w", encoding='utf-8') as file:
file.write(str(soup).replace("\xa0", " "))
solution3
0 ACCPTED 2022-03-04 19:43:58
Read and follow basic docs: Output formatters
If you give Beautiful Soup a document that contains HTML entities like “
&lquot;”, they'll be converted to Unicode characters
…
If you then convert the document to a string, the Unicode characters will be encoded asUTF-8. You won't get the HTML entities back
…
You can change this behavior by providing a value for theformatterargument toprettify(),encode(), ordecode()
…
If you pass informatter="html", Beautiful Soup will convert Unicode characters to HTML entities whenever possible :
soup_string = soup.prettify(formatter="html")
print( soup_string)
<html> <head> <title> hello </title> </head> <body> <p> Hello. he said; ! </p> </body> </html>
print(type(soup_string)) # for the sake of completeness
<class 'str'>
Another way (no " prettify "):
print(soup.encode(formatter="html").decode())
<html><head> <title>hello</title> </head> <body> <p> Hello. he said; !</p> </body> </html>
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