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B.Mr.W.
B.Mr.W.

Reputation: 19648

Python BeautifulSoup Find Siblings

Say I have a html table like this:

<table>
    <tr>
        <tr>...
        </tr>
        <tr>...
        </tr>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <tr>...
        </tr>
        <tr>...
        </tr>
    </tr>
    ...
</table>

I could locate the table tag. How could I find the first layer of table rows which are the son .. not the grandson of the table. 

print table.findAll('tr') # would return All the trs under table which is not what I want.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 779

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369424

Try following:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup('''
<body>
    <table>
        <tr id="tr_1">
            <tr id="tr_1_1">..</tr>
            <tr id="tr_1_2">...</tr>
        </tr>
        <tr id="tr_2">
            <tr id="tr_2_1">...</tr>
            <tr id="tr_2_2">...</tr>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>''', ['lxml','xml'])

for tr in soup.select('table > tr'):
    print(tr)
    print('---')

prints

<tr id="tr_1">
<tr id="tr_1_1">..</tr>
<tr id="tr_1_2">...</tr>
</tr>
---
<tr id="tr_2">
<tr id="tr_2_1">...</tr>
<tr id="tr_2_2">...</tr>
</tr>
---

NOTE: need lxml.

Upvotes: 2

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