BeautifulSoup not able to parse perfectly - python-2.7

Question

When I am using soup.find("h3", text="Main Address:").find_parents("section"), I am getting an output which is:
[<section class="otlnrw" itemscope="" itemtype="http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard">\n<header>\n<h3 i
temprop="name">Main Address:</h3>\n</header>\n<p>600 Dexter <abbr title="Avenue\r"><abbr title="Avenu
e\r">Ave.</abbr></abbr><br/><span class="locality">Montgomery</span>, <span class="region">AL</span>,
<span class="postal-code">36104</span></p> </section>]
Now I want to print only paragraph's text. I am not able to do that. Please tell me how can I print from here only text which is inside this paragraph of the section.
Or my HTML page is like this:
<article>
<header>
<h2 id="state-government">State Government</h2>
</header>
<section itemscope="" itemtype="http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard" class="otln">
<header><h3 itemprop="name">Official Name:</h3></header>
<p>Alaska
</p>
</section>
<section itemscope="" itemtype="http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard" class="otlnrw">
<header><h3 class="org">Governor:</h3></header>
<p>Bill Walker</p>
</section>
<section itemscope="" itemtype="http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard" class="otln">
<header><h3 itemprop="name">Main Address:</h3></header>
<p>120 East 4th Street<br>
<span class="locality">Juneau</span>,
<span class="region">AK</span>,
<span class="postal-code">99801</span></p>
</section>
<section itemscope="" itemtype="http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard" class="otlnrw">
<header><h3 itemprop="name">Phone Number:</h3></header>
<p class="spk tel">907-465-3708</p>
</section>
<p class="volver clearfix"><a href="#skiptarget">
<span class="icon-backtotop-dwnlvl">Back to Top</span></a></p>
<section>
<header><h2 id="state-agencies">State Agencies</h2></header>
<ul>
<li>Consumer Protection Offices</li>
<li>Corrections Department</li>
<li>Election Office</li>
<li>Motor Vehicle Offices</li>
<li>Surplus Property Sales</li>
<li>Travel and Tourism</li>
</ul>
</section>
<p class="volver clearfix"><a href="#skiptarget">
<span class="icon-backtotop-dwnlvl">Back to Top</span></a></p>
</article>
How should I get the address from it only text.

Answer 1

Your current code returns a list with one element. To get the <p> element in it, you can expand it a bit:
soup.find("h3", text="Main Address:").find_parents("section")[0]("p")
If you want to get what is inside that p element, you'll have to get the first element of that list again, and run decode_contents on it:
soup.find("h3", text="Main Address:").find_parents("section")[0]("p")[0].decode_contents(formatter="html")
In your case that will return:
u'120 East 4th Street<br/><span class="locality">Juneau</span>, <span class="region">AK</span>, <span class="postal-code">99801</span>'