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Simd
Simd

Reputation: 21274

Reading rows from a table in BeautifulSoup

I am trying to use BeautifulSoup for the first time to read a table. 

print table_body

works but 

rows = table_body.find_all('tr')

gives 

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable.

The result of the print table_body is:

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td><input type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="1098371296_GG14" class="tick_select" name="tick_select" id="tick_1098371296_GG14" /></td>
<td><a href="application.jsp?number=1322801&amp;cycle=16/17&amp;route=routecode&amp;seq=0">1098371296</a></td>
<td>GG14</td>
<td>Joe</td>
<td>Doe</td>
<td>US</td>
<td>15/16</td>
<td>15/01/15</td>
<td></td>
<td>05/05/15</td>
<td></td>
<td>R</td>
<td> <abbr title="Withdrawn">Cw</abbr> <abbr title="MS">Mt</abbr> <abbr title="UF elsewhere">Ue</abbr></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
[...]

What am I doing wrong?

I am using BeautifulSoup version 3.2.1.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 126

Answers (2)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473843

To add and to change the focus of the @larsr's answer:

You should not be using BeautifulSoup 3 - it is no longer maintained. Instead upgrade:

pip install --upgrade beautifulsoup4

And make sure you import it as:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

Upvotes: 2

larsr
larsr

Reputation: 5811

It is because findAll is renamed find_all in more recent versions of BeautifulSoup, so write table_body.findAll('tr') instead.

Upvotes: 1

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