Removing newlines inside <a> tag

Question

I am quite new to python and also BeautifulSoup. Recently, I tried to get extract every <a> tag from some HTML in a local file. Part of my code looks like this:

with open(dir_path,encoding="utf-8_sig") as html_file:
     soup =BeautifulSoup(html_file,'html.parser')
tag = soup.find('a')
print(tag)

The output is look like this

<a class="cmp-image__link" data-cmp-hook-image="link" href="/">
<img alt="logo" class="cmp-image__image" data-cmp-hook-image="image" itemprop="contentUrl" src="//imagesource"/>
</a>

What I want to get is a string without newline inside the block of <a> tag

<a class="cmp-image__link" data-cmp-hook-image="link" href="/"><img alt="logo" class="cmp-image__image" data-cmp-hook-image="image" itemprop="contentUrl" src="//imagesource"/></a>

I tried using .strip() and .replace(), but it didnt work. Please help!

Update answer

This actually work well in my case !!! from @BrokenBenchmark

tag = '''<a class="cmp-image__link" data-cmp-hook-image="link" href="/">
<img alt="logo" class="cmp-image__image" data-cmp-hook-image="image" itemprop="contentUrl" src="//imagesource"/>
</a>'''

result = tag.replace('\n', '')

print(result)