How to remove content in nested tags with BeautifulSoup?

Question

How to remove content in nested tags with BeautifulSoup? These posts showed the reverse to retrieve the content in nested tags: How to get contents of nested tag using BeautifulSoup, and BeautifulSoup: How do I extract all the <li>s from a list of <ul>s that contains some nested <ul>s?

I have tried .text but it only removes the tags

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
>>> html = "<foo>Something something <bar> blah blah</bar> something</foo>"
>>> bs(html).find_all('foo')[0]
<foo>Something something <bar> blah blah</bar> something else</foo>
>>> bs(html).find_all('foo')[0].text
u'Something something  blah blah something else'

Desired output:

Something something something else

Answer 1

You can check for bs4.element.NavigableString on children:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import bs4
html = "<foo>Something something <bar> blah blah</bar> something <bar2>GONE!</bar2> else</foo>"
def get_only_text(elem):
    for item in elem.children:
        if isinstance(item,bs4.element.NavigableString):
            yield item

print ''.join(get_only_text(bs(html).find_all('foo')[0]))

Output;

Something something  something  else

Answer 2

Eg.

body = bs(html)
for tag in body.find_all('bar'):
    tag.replace_with('')