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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:06:05+00:00

I have html as follows: html = ‘<html><table>this is a table<p>some text</p></table><p>text outside of

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I have html as follows:

html = '<html><table>this is a table<p>some text</p></table><p>text outside of table</p></html>'

I want to move to the end of table and then find the next tag. I tried using findNext but if there is a tag inside the table it finds that tag instead of the next tag outside of the table.

soup = BeautifulSoup(''.join(text))
table = soup.find('table')
test = table.findNext()

This code gives me:

<p>some text</p>

However, I want it to give me:

<p>text outside of table</p>

The main problem is that I can’t always specify that a tag is a ‘p’ tag. I could have html like this:

html = '<html><table>this is a table<td>some text</td></table><table>text outside of table</table></html>'

So, I can’t really rely on the tag identifiers to get to the next one. In the above code, I want to return:

<table>text outside of table</table>

I realize that I could just use findNext twice, but often there are hundreds of tags inside each table and so that wouldn’t work.

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  1. Editorial Team

    would

    test = table.nextSibling

    work for you?

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