Replacing Class Name Beautifulsoup

I'm trying to parse an HTML document, and was wondering if you guys can help me out.

Solution 1:

You are looping over one element, and that only lists child elements. Because your selected tag has no child elements with further text (the <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> element is empty), you don't see anything.

Just don't loop, get to the text directly:

print search.text

Your class change didn't break anything here.

Demo:

>>>from bs4 import BeautifulSoup>>>soup = BeautifulSoup('''\...<tr height="21" style="height:15.75pt">...       <td class="style14" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt">...        71...       </td>...       <td class="style14">...        Breakeven...       </td>...       <td class="style10">...        The Script...        <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">...        </span>...       </td>...      </tr>...''')>>>search =soup.find('td', class_='style10')>>>search['class']
['style10']
>>>search['class'] = 'style14'>>>search['class']
'style14'
>>>list(search)
[u'\n        The Script\n        ', <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>, u'\n']
>>>search.text
u'\n        The Script\n        \n\n'

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