Beautifulsoup Removing Tags

I'm trying to remove the style tags and their contents from the source, but it's not working, no errors just simply doesn't decompose. This is what I have: source = BeautifulSoup(o

Solution 1:

The following code does what you want and works fine; do not use blanket except handling to mask bugs:

source = BeautifulSoup(open("page.html"))
for hidden in source.body.find_all(style='display:none'):
    hidden.decompose()

or better still, use a regular expression to cast the net a little wider:

import re

source = BeautifulSoup(open("page.html"))
for hidden in source.body.find_all(style=re.compile(r'display:\s*none')):
    hidden.decompose()

Tag.children only lists direct children of the body tag, not all nested children.