Beautifulsoup replace colspan=2 with single col - beautifulsoup

Question

I'm trying to parse data from rows which occasionally have a colspan=2 which spoils my ability to target data to extract.
What I'd like to do is remove the 'colspan=2' from the table element every time it occurs:
#replace
<td colspan="2" class="time">10:00 AM</td>
#with
<td>635</td>
Is this possible? And can I work it into a conditional if then else?
Here's a more verbose example:
<table>
<tr class="playerRow even">
<td class="pos">1</td>
<td><span class="rank"></span> -</td>
<td class="player"><p class="playerName">John doe</p></td>
<td class="background">X</td>
<td>345</td> #THIS ELEMENT FREQUENT
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td style=""></td>
</tr><
<tr class="playerRow odd">
<td class="pos">1</td>
<td><span class="rank"></span> -</td>
<td class="player"><p class="playerName">John doe</p></td>
<td class="background">X</td>
<td colspan="2" class="myClass" style="">3:15 PM</td> #THIS ELEMENT OCCASIONAL
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td style=""></td>
</tr>
<tr class="playerRow odd">
<td class="pos">1</td>
<td><span class="rank"></span> -</td>
<td class="player"><p class="playerName">John doe</p></td>
<td class="background">X</td>
<td>22</td> #THIS ELEMENT FREQUENT
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td style=""></td>
</tr>
</table>
So whenever I come across the colspan I'd like to replace it with a plain td, so it doesn't shunt the row elements across and mess up my count.

Answer 1

This will convert:
<td colspan="2" class="myClass" style="">3:15 PM</td>
to:
<td>3:15 PM</td>
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
bs = BeautifulSoup(html)
for x in bs.findAll("td"):
if "colspan" in x.attrs:
x.attrs = {}
Do you want it to remove the value also?