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lxml.etree & XPath
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gistfile1.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from lxml import etree
from StringIO import StringIO
str_html = """<p>
<em>aa</em>bb<em>cc</em>
</p>"""
root = etree.parse(StringIO(str_html), etree.HTMLParser())
em1 = root.xpath('//em[1]')
print em1[0].text #aa
print etree.tostring(em1[0], method='text') #aabb
print etree.tostring(em1[0]) #<em>aa</em>bb
print etree.tostring(em1[0], method='text', with_tail=False) #aa
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