Comments on: Parsing HTML table in Python with BeautifulSoup http://segfault.in/2010/07/parsing-html-table-in-python-with-beautifulsoup/ vinod's blog Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: segfault http://segfault.in/2010/07/parsing-html-table-in-python-with-beautifulsoup/#comment-89 segfault Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:03:44 +0000 http://segfault.in/?p=950#comment-89 @Maclaud Check if 'text' is None first. If 'td' is empty td.find() will return None. <pre lang="pyhon"> text = td.find(text=True) if text != None: .... .... </pre> @Maclaud

Check if ‘text’ is None first. If ‘td’ is empty td.find() will return None.

text = td.find(text=True)
if text != None:
    ....
    ....
]]> By: Maclaud http://segfault.in/2010/07/parsing-html-table-in-python-with-beautifulsoup/#comment-88 Maclaud Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:37:23 +0000 http://segfault.in/?p=950#comment-88 Thanx a lot for this demonstration, it was very useful for me, still i need to know how to deal with empty td's ex <code></code> which return <code> text = ''.join(td.find(text=True)) TypeError</code> thanks again Claudio Thanx a lot for this demonstration, it was very useful for me, still i need to know how to deal with empty td’s ex

which return text = ''.join(td.find(text=True))
TypeError
thanks again
Claudio

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