Extract dates using BeautifulSoup 4

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how to extract the date in this using BeautifulSoup? ```

Dec

31

Mon

Accepted Answer

Take the parent element of those divs, then get the three strings and join them into one string:

```
date = ' '.join([unicode(t) for t in parent.stripped_strings])
```

which would result in `Dec 31 Mon`.

If you need to manipulate the date, you'll need to parse it out to a `datetime.date` object; I strongly suggest you use the `dateutil` external library to do that. However, since the year is missing from this date, your mileage may vary.

Extract dates using BeautifulSoup 4

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