How to remove content in nested tags with BeautifulSoup?

Question

How to remove content in nested tags with BeautifulSoup? These posts showed the reverse to retrieve the content in nested tags: How to get contents of nested ta

Answer 1

You can check for bs4.element.NavigableString on children:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import bs4
html = "Something something  blah blah something GONE! else"
def get_only_text(elem):
    for item in elem.children:
        if isinstance(item,bs4.element.NavigableString):
            yield item

print ''.join(get_only_text(bs(html).find_all('foo')[0]))

Output;

Something something  something  else