I have just begun a struggle learning Python. I have read most of "Beginning Python - from Novice to Professional" - and some of it I even understood J
This is my first question to the list. And I'm sure not the last. I'm especially interested in learning web scraping techniques and here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081586/web-scraping-with-python I found a small example: import urllib2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen('http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astrono my.html?n=78').read()) for row in soup('table', {'class' : 'spad'})[0].tbody('tr'): tds = row('td') print tds[0].string, tds[1].string # will print date and sunrise The example works fine, and I can change it a bit and it still works. But I simply don't understand how I am supposed to the fourth line - after "for row in soup". I can clearly see it defines the area I want to scrape, but how is the syntax build? And almost as important - where should I have found that information myself? I have tried to read the help-file of BeautifulSoup, but found nothing there. Thanks in advance. Tommy Kaas Journalist Kaas & Mulvad Copenhagen, Denmark
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