Issue
I have a collection of HTML files. I wish to iterate over them, one by one, editing the mark-up of a particular class. The code I wish to edit is of the following form, using the following class names :
<td class='thisIsMyClass' colspan=4>
<a id='123' class='thisIsMyOtherClass' href='123'>Put me Elsewhere</a>
This can occur multiple times in the same document, with different text instead of "Put me Elsewhere", but always the same classes.
I want to change this to be of the form :
<font SIZE="3" COLOR="#333333" FACE="Verdana" STYLE="background-color:#ffffff;font-weight: bold;">
<h2>Put Me Elsewhere</h2>
</font>
import os
for filename in os.listdir('dirname'):
replace(filename)
def replace(filename):
tags = soup.find_all(attrs={"thisIsMyClass"})
What can I try after this, and how can I deal with the tags array?
Solution
Much better and more beautiful would be to prepare a replacement HTML string with a placeholder, find all td
tags with thisIsMyClass
class and use .replace_with()
to replace each:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data = """
<table>
<tr>
<td class='thisIsMyClass' colspan=4>
<a id='123' class='thisIsMyOtherClass' href='123'>Put me Elsewhere</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
"""
replacement = """
<font SIZE="3" COLOR="#333333" FACE="Verdana" STYLE="background-color:#ffffff;font-weight: bold;">
<h2>{text}</h2>
</font>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')
for td in soup.select('td.thisIsMyClass'):
td.replace_with(BeautifulSoup(replacement.format(text=td.a.text), 'html.parser'))
print soup.prettify()
Prints:
<table>
<tr>
<font color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3" style="background-color:#ffffff;font-weight: bold;">
<h2>
Put me Elsewhere
</h2>
</font>
</tr>
</table>
Answered By - alecxe
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