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mikey
mikey

Reputation: 33

Python - Beautiful Soup - Remove Tags

I have extracted the below web based data as a list using Beautiful Soup. On the original website it's a table of numbers:

[<td class="right">113</td>, <td class="right">
 89 </td>, <td class="right last">
<b>117</b> </td>, <td class="right">113</td>, <td class="right">
 85 </td>, <td class="right last">
<b>114</b> </td>, <td class="right">100</td>, <td class="right">
 56 </td>, <td class="right last">
<b>84</b> </td>]

What's the most efficient way to create a list of numbers from this data? Ideally I'd like to extract the tags using Beautiful Soup but I can't figure out how to do this from the documentation.

My original Soup code is:

print soup.find_all('td', 'right')             #printing this produces the above data

numbers_data = []                              #my attempt to extract tags
for e in soup.find_all('td', 'right'):
    numbers_data.append(e.extract())

print numbers_data

Both return the same list.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2314

Answers (1)

prgao
prgao

Reputation: 1787

numbers_data = [int(e.text) for e in soup.find_all('td', 'right')]

print numbers_data

Upvotes: 1

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