Beautifulsoup 4: Remove comment tag and its content

Question

So the page that I\'m scrapping contains these html codes. How do I remove the comment tag along with its content with bs4?

Answer 1

From this answer 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()