Removing new line '\n' from the output of python BeautifulSoup

Question

I am using python Beautiful soup to get the contents of:

     abc
     def         


        
      

Answer 1

You could do this:

breadcrum = [item.strip() for item in breadcrum if str(item)]

The if str(item) will take care of getting rid of the empty list items after stripping the new line characters.

If you want to join the strings, then do:

','.join(breadcrum)

This will give you abc,def,ghi

EDIT

Although the above gives you what you want, as pointed out by others in the thread, the way you are using BS to extract anchor texts is not correct. Once you have the div of your interest, you should be using it to get it's children and then get the anchor text. As:

path = soup.find('div',attrs={'class':'path'})
anchors = path.find_all('a')
data = []
for ele in anchors:
    data.append(ele.text)

And then do a ','.join(data)