Find all links inside a table

Question

My html page has:

...
<table class="t1" ..>
<tr><td> ... <a href="">...</a> ... <a href="">..</a>
</table>

...

I have:

html = BeautifulSoup(page)

links = html.findAll('a', ?????????)

How can I find all links that are inside this table?

Answer 1

Find the table (by class in this case), then find all the links within it.

html = BeautifulSoup(page)
table = html.find('table', 't1')
links = table.findAll('a')

Answer 2

More efficient than a raw find, use SoupStrainer:

html  = BeautifulSoup(page, parseOnlyThese=SoupStrainer('table', 't1' ) )
links = html.findAll('a')

See also, the Search by Class documentation.