[Python] How to extract from multiple <span> tags and group the data together using BS4?

I have extracted data between span tags based on its class, from a webpage. But at times, the webpage splits a line into multiple fragments and stores it in consecutive tags. All the children span tags have the same class name.

Following is the HTML snippet:

<p class="Paragraph SCX">
<span class="TextRun SCX">
<span class="NormalTextRun SCX">
This week
</span>
</span>
<span class="TextRun SCX">
<span class="NormalTextRun SCX">
&nbsp;(12/
</span>
</span>
<span class="TextRun SCX">
<span class="NormalTextRun SCX">
11
</span>
</span>
<span class="TextRun SCX">
<span class="NormalTextRun SCX">
&nbsp;- 12/1
</span>
</span>
<span class="TextRun SCX">
<span class="NormalTextRun SCX">
7
</span>
</span>
<span class="TextRun SCX">
<span class="NormalTextRun SCX">
):
</span>
</span>
<span class="EOP SCX">
&nbsp;
</span>
</p>


From the above HTML snippet, I need to extract only the innermost span data.

Python code to extract data using BS4:

for data in elem.find_all('span', class_="TextRun"):
a = data.find('span').contents[0]
a = a.string.replace(u'\xa0', '')
print (a)
events_parsed_thisweek.append(a)


This code results in each data being separately printed as separate entity. Required Output:

This Week ((12/11 - 12/17):
​

Any idea how to combine these span tag data together? Thanks!

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