How to tell BeautifulSoup to extract the content of a specific tag as text? (without touching it)

Question

I need to parse an html document which contains \"code\" tags

I\'m getting the code blocks like this:

soup = BeautifulSoup(str(content))
code_blocks          


        

Answer 1

Add the code tag to the QUOTE_TAGS dictionary.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

content = "<code class='csharp'>List<Person> persons = new List<Person>();</code>"

BeautifulSoup.QUOTE_TAGS['code'] = None
soup = BeautifulSoup(str(content))
code_blocks = soup.findAll('code')

Output:

[<code class="csharp"> List<Person> persons = new List<Person>(); </code>]