Sander Sweers wrote:
2009/7/18 Che M <pine...@hotmail.com>:table = soup.find("table","dataTable tm10") #find the table tbody = table.find("tbody") #find the table's bodyYou can do this in one step. tbody = soup.find('tbody')
Yeah, but what if the document contains multiple tables, and you want explicitely the one with the class 'dataTable tm10'?
In such a case it doesn't hurt to progressively narrow down on the wanted element.
It also makes the scrape code more robust against page changes. Someone could add an extra table to the start of the page to host a search box, for example.
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