beautiful soup just get the value inside the tag

try this:

for a in volume:
    a.get_text()

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Extract the string from the element:

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

Using css selector:

>>> soup.select('span#volume')[0].text
u'16,103.3'

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