How can I strip comment tags from HTML using BeautifulSoup?

Question

I have been playing with BeautifulSoup, which is great. My end goal is to try and just get the text from a page. I am just trying to get the text from the body, with a speci

Answer 1

If you are looking for solution in BeautifulSoup version 3 BS3 Docs - Comment

soup = BeautifulSoup("""Hello! """)
comment = soup.find(text=re.compile("if"))
Comment=comment.__class__
for element in soup(text=lambda text: isinstance(text, Comment)):
    element.extract()
print soup.prettify()