Douglas County Sheriff warrant scraper

dougwarrants.py

import requests
from bs4 import *
from time import *
import re
from string import ascii_lowercase

f = open('dougwarrants.txt', 'wb')
baseurl = "http://omahasheriff.com/services/warrants/criminal?searchterm="

for letter in ascii_lowercase:

    r = requests.get(baseurl + letter)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text)
    links = []
    table = soup.find('table', {"class" : "warrants"})

    for row in table.findAll('tr')[1:]:
        col = row.findAll('td')
        warrantnumber = col[1].string.split("-")[0].strip()
        links.append(warrantnumber)
    
    lbase = "http://omahasheriff.com/services/warrants/criminal/warrant-details?wid="    
    
    for link in links:
        x = requests.get(lbase + link)
        serp = BeautifulSoup(x.text)
        div = serp.find('div', {'id':'bodybottom'})
        tab = div.find('table')
        rec = []
        for i, cell in enumerate(tab.findAll('td')):
            if i % 2 != 0:
                wut = re.sub(' +',' ',cell.text.strip().replace("\t",""))
                rec.append(wut)
                print wut
        f.write("|".join(rec) + "\n")
        sleep(1)        
        
f.flush()
f.close()