Extract Text From Html File With BeautifulSoup/Python

I am trying to extract the text from a html file. The html file looks like this:

Copy

Returns:

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Bayern
Berlin

The builtin python dir() and type() methods are always handy to inspect an object.

print(dir(names))

[...,
 '__sizeof__',
 '__str__',
 '__subclasshook__',
 '__weakref__',
 'append',
 'clear',
 'copy',
 'count',
 'extend',
 'index',
 'insert',
 'pop',
 'remove',
 'reverse',
 'sort',
 'source']

Solution 2:

With a list of comprehension you could do the following :

names = soup.find_all("span",{"class":"toctext"})
print([x.text for x in names])