does BeautifulSoup strips inline CSS and javascript content

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Published on 2010-06-09T01:21:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 1:42 UTC
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hey guys does beautifulSoup strips css and javascript content? after using

content3 = ''.join(BeautifulSoup(content).findAll(text=True))

i still have them lingering around.

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