title: Grabbing a simple string from the first tag
body: <p>I'm honestly finding <code>BeautifulSoup</code> too difficult, the documentation doesn't explain the basics I'm looking for.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to return the string inside a tag that has an attribute:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span class="on"&gt;6220&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But running this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def fetch_online():
      users = page('span', {'class' : 'on'})
      return str(users)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Gives me <code>[&lt;span class="on"&gt;6220&lt;/span&gt;]</code>. So I figured I'm doing it all wrong, what is the way to just get a simple string out of a tag?</p>