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Jack Gruber
Jack Gruber

Reputation: 163

How to find first <td> in table that contains a <p> element using BeautifulSoup?

I'm trying to parse the table located at this page http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/index.shtml. I am trying to get the start time and Band name of who is playing on the current today. I noticed that the first td that contains the p element in the table is what I'm looking for. Any idea how I would go about this? I tried using 

soup.findAll("p")

but I am trying to select the entire "td" that contains that "p" element.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 819

Answers (1)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476584

You can use a generator:

first_td = next(td for td in soup.find_all('td') if td.p)
#               ^           generator                  ^

The find_all will yield all <td> tags. We then filter the tags by td.p. This will return the p tag (given there is one). Otherwise it will return None. Since the truthiness of None is False and for the tag objects it is True, the generator will thus enumerate all <td> tags with a <p> tag.

We call next(..) to obtain the first of these elements. In case no such element exists, it will raise a StopIteration exception.

In case you want all these tags, you can use list comprehension:

[td for td in soup.find_all('td') if td.p]

Upvotes: 2

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