Add parent tags with beautiful soup

Question

I have many pages of HTML with various sections containing these code snippets:

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Answer 1

How about this:

def wrap(to_wrap, wrap_in):
    contents = to_wrap.replace_with(wrap_in)
    wrap_in.append(contents)

Simple example:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup("Some text")
wrap(soup.a, soup.new_tag("b"))
print soup.body
# Some text

Example with your document:

for footnote in soup.find_all("div", "footnote"):
    new_tag = soup.new_tag("div")
    new_tag['class'] = 'footnote-out'
    wrap(footnote, new_tag)