clone element with beautifulsoup

Question

I have to copy a part of one document to another, but I don\'t want to modify the document I copy from.

If I use .extract() it removes the element from

Answer 1

For Python:

You can copy the parent element like:

import copy
p_copy = copy.copy(soup.p)
print p_copy
# 
I want pizza and more pizza!

Ref: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ Section: Copying Beautiful Soup objects

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