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POParse HTML with Python and BeautifulSoup - get text both inside and outside the <a> tags
 

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    <p>I have html with a number of tags, and then text which is outside those tags. The text I'm trying to get is in <br> tags except the first instance, which is I guess just part of the tag. But if I try to get the text of the tag (like td.text or something like that) then it also gives me all the text in all the and <br> tags.</p> <pre><code> &lt;td align="left"&gt; &lt;a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/1740935"&gt; Garcia, Leury &lt;/a&gt; SS CHW - Traded from Royal Disappointments &lt;br&gt; &lt;a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/1813191"&gt; Almonte, Abraham &lt;/a&gt; OF SEA - Traded from Royal Disappointments &lt;br&gt; &lt;a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/2046044"&gt; Pillar, Kevin &lt;/a&gt; OF TOR - Traded from Royal Disappointments &lt;br&gt; &lt;a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/1666824"&gt; Sierra, Moises &lt;/a&gt; LF TOR - Traded from Royal Disappointments &lt;br&gt; &lt;a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/580599"&gt; Paulino, Felipe &lt;/a&gt; SP KC &lt;span title="Felipe Paulino off 60-day DL"&gt; &lt;a class="playerLink" href="http://bbroto.baseball.cbssports.com/players/playerpage/580599" subtab="Update"&gt; &lt;img border="0" height="10" src="http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/news-note-recent.gif" width="10"/&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt; - Traded from Royal Disappointments &lt;/br&gt; &lt;/br&gt; &lt;/br&gt; &lt;/br&gt; &lt;/td&gt; </code></pre> <p>Basically I want (as separate values) each text in an a tag, followed by each text outside the a tag. So the end result would be:</p> <p>Garcia, Leury</p> <p>SS CHW - Traded from Royal Disappointments</p> <p>Almonte, Abraham</p> <p>OF SEA - Traded from Royal Disappointments</p> <p>Pillar, Kevin</p> <p>OF TOR - Traded from Royal Disappointments</p> <p>Sierra, Moises</p> <p>LF TOR - Traded from Royal Disappointments</p> <p>Paulino, Felipe</p> <p>SP KC - Traded from Royal Disappointments</p> <p>So far I only have the code for the text from the a tags:</p> <pre><code> pl = psoup.findAll('a',{'class': 'playerLink'}) for a in pl: print a.text </code></pre> <p>I really have no idea how to approach the rest of it.</p>
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