Keep children when replacing tag using BeautifulSoup

Question

I'm trying to replace a form tag without deleting its children. For example, I would like to convert this:

<form>
    <input type="text"/>
    <input type="text"/>
</form>

To this:

<p>
    <input type="text"/>
    <input type="text"/>
</p>

But instead I get:

<p></p>

This is how I'm trying to do it right now:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

content = '<form><input type="text"/><input type="text"/></form>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(content)

old_form = soup.find('form')
new_form = soup.new_tag('p')

old_form.replace_with(new_form)  
print soup

Thanks in advance for the help!

Answer 1

Using the .name property works for me:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

content = '<form><input type="text"/><input type="text"/></form>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(content)

form = soup.find('form')
form.name = 'p'

print form.prettify()
<p>
 <input type="text"/>
 <input type="text"/>
</p>