How do I keep whitespace in BeautifulSoup.contents

Question

Most examples I find online show how to remove whitespace - but in my case I need to keep it.. I have

html = \"I can flip this whole thing with one hand\\n          


        

Answer 1

The html parser seems to only keeps whitespace if the content you are parsing is in a

 tag -- in my case, the pre tag was removed. Adding


html = "
" + html + "
"


preserved the whitespace.