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import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
data = """ | |
<table> | |
<tr align="right"><td>193</td><td>Dalton</td><td>Daisy</td></tr> | |
<tr align="right"><td>194</td><td>Dakota</td><td>Amelia</td></tr> | |
<tr align="right"><td>195</td><td>Julio</td><td>Mayra</td></tr> | |
<tr align="right"><td>196</td><td>Arthur</td><td>Theresa</td></tr> | |
<tr align="right"><td>197</td><td>Pedro</td><td>Madeline</td></tr> | |
<tr align="right"><td>198</td><td>Preston</td><td>Sasha</td></tr> | |
<tr align="right"><td>199</td><td>Cesar</td><td>Claudia</td></tr> | |
</table> | |
""" | |
tree = ET.fromstring(data) | |
print [element.text for element in tree.findall('.//tr/td[2]')] | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(data) | |
print [element.text for element in soup.select('table > tr > td:nth-of-type(2)')] |
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