Get document DOCTYPE with BeautifulSoup

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Beautiful Soup 4 has a class for DOCTYPE declarations, so you can use that to extract all the declarations at top level (though you’re no doubt expecting one or none!)

def doctype(soup):
    items = [item for item in soup.contents if isinstance(item, bs4.Doctype)]
    return items[0] if items else None

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