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Beautiful Soup Documentation — Beautiful Soup 4.4.0 documentation#beautifulsoup

BeautifulSoup

The BeautifulSoup object represents the parsed document as a whole. For most purposes, you can treat it as a Tag object. This means it supports most of the methods described in Navigating the tree and Searching the tree.

You can also pass a BeautifulSoup object into one of the methods defined in Modifying the tree, just as you would a Tag. This lets you do things like combine two parsed documents:

doc = BeautifulSoup("<document><content/>INSERT FOOTER HERE</document", "xml")
footer = BeautifulSoup("<footer>Here's the footer</footer>", "xml")
doc.find(text="INSERT FOOTER HERE").replace_with(footer)
# u'INSERT FOOTER HERE'
print(doc)
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
# <document><content/><footer>Here's the footer</footer></document>

Since the BeautifulSoup object doesn’t correspond to an actual HTML or XML tag, it has no name and no attributes. But sometimes it’s useful to look at its .name, so it’s been given the special .name “[document]”:

soup.name
# u'[document]'

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