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Html – How to convert a <br> separated paragraph into multiple paragraphs using Python and BeautifulSoup?

Some html writers use <br> in <p>, which is hard to separate when scraping them with bs4.

Example:

<p>
 part1
 <br> 
 part2
 <br>
 part3
 <br>
 part4
</p>

How to transform it into "real" paragraphs, like:

<p>
 <p>part1</p>
 <p>part2</p>
 <p>part3</p>
 <p>part4</p>
</p>
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Recall that <br> is used inside <p>, so here is a string hack.

    html = html.replace("<br>", "</p><p>")
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
soup.find_all('p')

    Note that this is not an "open and closing paragraph" tag but rather "closing then opening".

    <p>
 part1
 </p><p>
 part2
 </p><p>
 part3
 </p><p>
 part4
</p>

    Now all p tags match each other, though a bit messy with line breaks, which can be fixed by soup.prettify().


  2. 0

    You can’t put paragraphs inside paragraphs. That also doesn’t make any semantical sense at all. Physical Books also can’t have paragraphs inside paragraphs:

    <p>
 <p>part1</p>
 <p>part2</p>
 <p>part3</p>
 <p>part4</p>
</p>

    Will be rendered by the browser like:

    <p></p>

 <p>part1</p>
 <p>part2</p>
 <p>part3</p>
 <p>part4</p>

<p></p>

    See for yourself:

    <p>
 <p>part1</p>
 <p>part2</p>
 <p>part3</p>
 <p>part4</p>
</p>
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  3. 0

    You should not have a <p> tag wrapping other <p> tags. Each <p> (paragraph) tag should be used individually
    use following method

    <div>part1</div>
<div>part2</div>
<div>part3</div>
<div>part4</div>

    or

    <p>part1</p>
<p>part2</p>
<p>part3</p>
<p>part4</p>
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