Question

I need the string SKU: E02165 witch is somehow encoded as

SKU: E02165  

by some means, here is the full div strait from the web site

<div class="sku">SKU:&nbsp;E02165&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>

I have tried

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
info = soup.find('div' , {'class':'sku'}).contents

as well all of the flowing

info = soup.findAll('div', { "class" : "sku"})
info = soup.find('div' , class='sku'}).contents
info = soup.find('div' , "class=" + 'sku'}).contents
info = soup.find('div' , {'class':'sku'}).text
info = soup.find('div' , {'class':'sku'}).contents

I have spent 2 hours strait on 2 lines of code if you can help me split the “sku:” from the number i think i could just use info = (info.split(‘sku: ‘)[1]) but if that dose nt work feel free to let me know.
thank you.

Answer 1

Try this:

>>> div = '<div class="sku">SKU:&nbsp;E02165&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>'
>>> html = BeautifulSoup(div)
>>> div_sku = html.find('div', {'class': 'sku'})
>>> value = div_sku.get_text(strip=True).encode('ascii', 'ignore').split('SKU:')[1]
>>> value
'E02165'

---

get_text(strip=True) will get the text part of a document or tag with whitespace from the beginning and end stripped.

encode('ascii', 'ignore') will ignore the unicode u'\xa0' in the text and therefore allows the split() to return accurate result.

Alternatively, you can also simply just do:

value =div_sku.get_text(strip=True).replace(u'\xa0', u'').split('SKU:')[1]

in which replace(u'\xa0', u'') will replace u'\xa0' with empty unicode string.