python - beautiful soup just get the value inside the tag

Question

The following command:

volume = soup.findAll("span", {"id": "volume"})[0]

gives:

<span class="gr_text1" id="volume">16,103.3</span>

when I issue a print(volume).

How do I get just the number?

Answer 1

Extract the string from the element:

volume = soup.findAll("span", {"id": "volume"})[0].string