BeautifulSoup: Can't convert NavigableString to string

Question

I\'m starting to learn Python and I\'ve decided to code a simple scraper. One problem I\'m encountering is I cannot convert a NavigableString to a regular string.

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Answer 1

For Python 3, the answer is merely str(tag.string)

Other answers will fail.

unicode() is not a built-in in Python 3.

tag.string.encode('utf-8') will convert the string to a byte string, which you don't want..