Beautiful soup documentation provides attributes .contents and .children to access the children of a given tag (a list and an iterable respectively), and includes both Navigable Strings and Tags. I want only the children of type Tag.
I'm currently accomplishing this using list comprehension:
rows=[x for x in table.tbody.children if type(x)==bs4.element.Tag]
but I'm wondering if there is a better/more pythonic/built-in way to get just Tag children.
A new tag can be created by calling BeautifulSoup's inbuilt function new_tag(). Inserting a new tag using the append() method : The new tag is appended to the end of the parent tag.
Going down. One of the important pieces of element in any piece of HTML document are tags, which may contain other tags/strings (tag's children). Beautiful Soup provides different ways to navigate and iterate over's tag's children.
thanks to J.F.Sebastian , the following will work:
rows=table.tbody.find_all(True, recursive=False)
Documentation here: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#true
In my case, I needed actual rows in the table, so I ended up using the following, which is more precise and I think more readable:
rows=table.tbody.find_all('tr')
Again, docs: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#navigating-using-tag-names
I believe this is a better way than iterating through all the children of a Tag.
Worked with the following input:
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<thead>
<tr class="title-row">
<th class="title" colspan="100">
<div style="position:relative;">
President
<span class="pct-rpt">
99% reporting
</span>
</div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr class="header-row">
<th class="photo first">
</th>
<th class="candidate ">
Candidate
</th>
<th class="party ">
Party
</th>
<th class="votes ">
Votes
</th>
<th class="pct ">
Pct.
</th>
<th class="change ">
Change from ‘08
</th>
<th class="evotes last">
Electoral Votes
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="">
<td class="photo first">
<div class="photo_wrap"><img alt="P-barack-obama" height="48" src="http://i1.nyt.com/projects/assets/election_2012/images/candidate_photos/election_night/p-barack-obama.jpg?1352320690" width="68" /></div>
</td>
<td class="candidate ">
<div class="winner dem"><img alt="Hp-checkmark@2x" height="9" src="http://i1.nyt.com/projects/assets/election_2012/images/swatches/[email protected]?1352320690" width="10" />Barack Obama</div>
</td>
<td class="party ">
Dem.
</td>
<td class="votes ">
2,916,811
</td>
<td class="pct ">
57.3%
</td>
<td class="change ">
-4.6%
</td>
<td class="evotes last">
20
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="">
<td class="photo first">
</td>
<td class="candidate ">
<div class="not-winner">Mitt Romney</div>
</td>
<td class="party ">
Rep.
</td>
<td class="votes ">
2,090,116
</td>
<td class="pct ">
41.1%
</td>
<td class="change ">
+4.3%
</td>
<td class="evotes last">
0
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="">
<td class="photo first">
</td>
<td class="candidate ">
<div class="not-winner">Gary Johnson</div>
</td>
<td class="party ">
Lib.
</td>
<td class="votes ">
54,798
</td>
<td class="pct ">
1.1%
</td>
<td class="change ">
–
</td>
<td class="evotes last">
0
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="last-row">
<td class="photo first">
</td>
<td class="candidate ">
div class="not-winner">Jill Stein</div>
</td>
<td class="party ">
Green
</td>
<td class="votes ">
29,336
</td>
<td class="pct ">
0.6%
</td>
<td class="change ">
–
</td>
<td class="evotes last">
0
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="footer" colspan="100">
<a href="/2012/results/president">President Map</a> |
<a href="/2012/results/president/big-board">President Big Board</a> |
<a href="/2012/results/president/exit-polls?state=il">Exit Polls</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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