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Beautifulsoup: Getting a new line when I tried to access the soup.head.next_sibling value with Beautifulsoup4

I am trying to give an example from BeautifulSoup Docs and found this to work weird. When I try to access the next value, instead of "body", "\ n" appears in the picture.

html_doc = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse story</b></p>

<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>

<p class="story">...</p>
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)
soup.head.next_sibling
u'\n'

I am using the latest version of beautifulSoup4. 4.3.3. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

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There are 3 kinds of objects that BeautifulSoup"sees" in HTML:

  • Tag
  • NavigableString
  • Comment

.next_sibling, , node (NavigableString). .

Tag , find_next_sibling() , : find_next_sibling("body").

" " CSS:

soup.select("head + *")
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soup.head.find_next_sibling()


soup.head.next_sibling.next_sibling
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