[FIXED] removing `\n` using bs4 get_text()

Issue

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


# current output as below
"""
'DOMINGUEZ, JONATHAN D. VS. RAMOS,\n
                                           SILVIA M'
"""

# desired one is

#  DOMINGUEZ, JONATHAN D. VS. RAMOS, SILVIA M

x = """<td width="350px" valign="top"
   style="padding:.5rem;">
   DOMINGUEZ, JONATHAN D. VS. RAMOS,
   SILVIA M
</td>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(x, 'lxml')
print(soup.select_one('td').get_text(strip=True, separator='\n'))

I checked the docs and I believe that get_text() can do that but am not sure how!

Solution

You might need a regular expression, this could also get rid of extra spaces:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

x = """<td width="350px" valign="top"
   style="padding:.5rem;">
   DOMINGUEZ, JONATHAN D. VS. RAMOS,
   SILVIA M
</td>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(x, 'lxml')
text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', soup.select_one('td').get_text(strip=True))
print(text)

Giving:

DOMINGUEZ, JONATHAN D. VS. RAMOS, SILVIA M

Answered By - Martin Evans