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.
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">
<di