Python BeautifulSoup: Insert a new text within a url in a specified position

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Write a Python program to insert a new text within a url in a specified position.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html_doc = '<a href="http://example.com/">HTML<i>w3resource.com</i></a>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, "lxml")
tag = soup.a
print("Original Markup:")
print(tag.contents)
tag.insert(2, "CSS") #2-> Position of the text (1, 2, 3…)
print("\nNew url after inserting the text:")
print(tag.contents)

Sample Output:

Original Markup:
['HTML', <i>w3resource.com</i>]

New url after inserting the text:
['HTML', <i>w3resource.com</i>, 'CSS']

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