BeautifulSoup decompose multiple classes of an element

Question

I want to remove the certain span elements, all up about 10 individual classes. I can do this tediously by repeating my code 10 times, but that is not a correct way to learn.

This is what I got working, that I want to simplify:

for span in table_tag.find_all("span", {'class':'class1'}):

    span.decompose()

for span in table_tag.find_all("span", {'class':'class2'}):

    span.decompose()

for span in table_tag.find_all("span", {'class':'class3'}):

    span.decompose()

This is what I tried but it didn't remove anything:

remove = table_tag.find_all('class1','class2','class3')

for span in table_tag.find_all("span", {'class': remove}):

    span.decompose()

The BeautifulSoup documentation just doesn't hit home with me about how to decompose multiple elements in one command. Also when I go above 5 classes in the find_all command, I get an error that find_all takes from 1 to 6 positional arguments but 7 were given. Obviously I am using the command wrong, just need some help, please.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this: 

classes = ['class1', 'class2'....]

for i in classes:

    for span in table_tag.find_all("span", {'class': i}):

        span.decompose()

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