[FIXED] How to remove a tag from an element of BeautifulSoup?

Issue

I have a page like this:

...
<div class="myclass">
  <p>
    text 1 to keep<span>text 1 to remove</span>and keep this too.
  </p>
  <p>
    text 2 to keep<span>text 2 to remove</span>and keep this too.
  </p>
<div>

I.e.: I want to remove all <span> tags from any <p> element from bs4 (BeautifulSoup in Python3).

Currently this is my code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

...
text = ""
for tag in soup.find_all(attrs={"class": "myclass"}):
  text += tag.p.text

And of course I get all text in spans too...

I read I should use unwrap() or decompose() but I really do not understand how to use them in practice in my use-case...
All similar Q/A do not help...

Solution

You can try:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html_text = """\
<div class="myclass">
  <p>
    text 1 to keep<span>text 1 to remove</span>and keep this too.
  </p>
  <p>
    text 2 to keep<span>text 2 to remove</span>and keep this too.
  </p>
<div>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_text, "html.parser")

for span in soup.select("p span"):
    span.replace_with(" ")  # or span.extract()

soup.smooth()

print(soup.prettify())

Prints:

<div class="myclass">
 <p>
  text 1 to keep and keep this too.
 </p>
 <p>
  text 2 to keep and keep this too.
 </p>
 <div>
 </div>
</div>

Answered By - Andrej Kesely