BeautifulSoup
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Beautiful Soup is a Python library for manipulating HTML pages.
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Code Examples
A function to replace the contents of a tag:
import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup("<ul><li>one</li><li>two</li></ul>")
def setcontents (tag, val):
# remove previous contents
for c in tag.contents:
c.extract()
# insert the new
tag.insert(0, val)
items = soup.findAll("li")
for item in items:
setcontents(item, "foo")
print soup.prettify()