how to extract text within font tag using beautifulsoup

Question

I am making my first program with beautifulsoup and my html file has code snippet like this

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<font face="verdana" size="3">5 n i D 1 C</font>
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I want to extract 5 n i D 1 C from within the <font> tag. I am doing

ele=soup('font', face="verdana",size="3") then

ele.Contents()

but i am getting an error AttributeError: 'ResultSet' object has no attribute 'font' when i do

 print ele

output is

[<font face="verdana" size="3">5 n i D 1 C</font>]

that means it is searching correctly, please help me how to extract the given text.

Thank you

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '12 at 18:14

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ele[0].contents[0]
u'5 n i D 1 C'

answered Mar 24 '12 at 18:14

Asterisk

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1. `ele=soup('font', face="verdana",size="3")`, here ele's type is a ResultSet, which seems like a list. So to get the first font element you have to get the first item in ResultSet, i.e. `ele[0]`. 2. ele[0].contents is a list of strings. So to get the first string you again access the 0-th item. – Asterisk Mar 24 '12 at 18:19
also, how to store just `5niD1C` in a variable? – sum2000 Mar 24 '12 at 18:46
`my_var = ele[0].contents[0]` – Asterisk Mar 24 '12 at 18:49
but this also stores newlines and tabs with my_var, how to remove them? – sum2000 Mar 24 '12 at 18:51

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '12 at 18:08

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Try doing

ele[0].Contents()

instead of

ele.Contents()

ele is a ResultSet and not the first result, might want to check the documentation for something that only returns the first result. I'm not familiar with BeautifulSoup

answered Mar 24 '12 at 18:08

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