gistfile1.txt

Hints:

= Step 2 =


1) The first line of the table is different from the others

2) It should be

  print list(row.strings)

 not


  print list[row.strings]



3) You'll need to do get individual 'td' elements from 'row', using 'find_all'


4) You'll need to use the 'strip' method to get rid of the leading and trailing whitespace



= Step 4 =


The problem is in this line:

  outfile = open('step4.txt', 'w')

It might not do what you think it does.

Look up the docs for the open function


http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#open