segmenting bs4.element.Tag

Asked Feb 08 '22 at 21:32

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Is it possible to segment a bs4.element.Tag into several bs4.element.Tag?

You can think of an application as the following:

1- The original bs4.element.Tag contains a paragraph.

2- We want to segment the paragraph in the original bs4.element.Tag into sentences and get a bs4.element.Tag corresponding to each sentence.

Example:

paragraphs = soup.find_all('p') gives all the paragraphs in an HTML file.

Suppose a paragraph (which is also a bs4.element.Tag instance) is the following:

<p><i><a href="/wiki/Le_Bassin_Aux_Nymph%C3%A9as" title="Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas">Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas</a></i>, 1919. Monet's late series of water lily paintings are among his best-known works.

I would like to turn this bs4.element.Tag instance (which is also a paragraph) into 2 bs4.element.Tag instances as the following (one for each sentence):

First bs4.element.Tag should correspond to the first sentence:

<i><a href="/wiki/Le_Bassin_Aux_Nymph%C3%A9as" title="Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas">Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas</a></i>, 1919.

Second bs4.element.Tag should correspond to the second sentence:

Monet's late series of water lily paintings are among his best-known works.

edited Feb 08 '22 at 21:43

asked Feb 08 '22 at 21:32

A.M.

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Can you share some HTML including the desired output? – MendelG Feb 08 '22 at 21:37
@MendelG I just edited the question and added an example. – A.M. Feb 08 '22 at 21:43
The text _"1919."_ is part of the _first_ paragraph? – MendelG Feb 08 '22 at 21:49
@MendelG The text "1919." is part of the first sentence. – A.M. Feb 08 '22 at 21:51
Is it okay if the the type of the two paragraphs are `str` instead of `bs4.element.Tag`? – MendelG Feb 08 '22 at 21:58
@MendelG That is the main issue. `str` would be simple because we can use `get_text()`. However, since I am doing further processing, I still need `bs4.element.Tag`. – A.M. Feb 08 '22 at 22:04

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