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I have a html doc similar to following: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <div id="Symbols" class="cb"> <table class="quotes"> <tr><th>Code</th><th>Name</th> <th style="text-align:right;">High</th> <th style="text-align:right;">Low</th> </tr> <tr class="ro" onclick="location.href='/xyz.com/A.htm';" style="color:red;"> <td><a href="/xyz.com/A.htm" title="Display,A">A</a></td> <td>A Inc.</td> <td align="right">45.44</td> <td align="right">44.26</td> <tr class="re" onclick="location.href='/xyz.com/B.htm';" style="color:red;"> <td><a href="/xyz.com/B.htm" title="Display,B">B</a></td> <td>B Inc.</td> <td align="right">18.29</td> <td align="right">17.92</td> </div></html> I need to extract code/name/high/low information from the table. I used following code from one of the similar examples in Stack Over Flow: ############################# import urllib2 from lxml import html, etree webpg = urllib2.urlopen(http://www.eoddata.com/stocklist/NYSE/A.htm).read() table = html.fromstring(webpg) for row in table.xpath('//table[@class="quotes"]/tbody/tr'): for column in row.xpath('./th[position()>0]/text() | ./td[position()=1]/a/text() | ./td[position()>1]/text()'): print column.strip(), print ############################# I am getting nothing output. I have to change the first loop xpath to table.xpath('//tr') from table.xpath('//table[@class="quotes"]/tbody/tr') I just don't understand why the xpath('//table[@class="quotes"]/tbody/tr') not work.

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