Beautiful Soup [Python] and the extracting of text in a table

Question

i am new to Python and to Beatiful Soup also! I heard about BS. It is told to be a great tool to parse and extract content. So here i am...:

I want to take the content

Answer 1

First find the table (as you are doing). Using find rather than findall returns the first item in the list (rather than returning a list of all finds - in which case we'd have to add an extra [0] to take the first element of the list):

table = soup.find('table' ,attrs={'class':'bp_ergebnis_tab_info'})

Then use find again to find the first td:

first_td = table.find('td')

Then use renderContents() to extract the textual contents:

text = first_td.renderContents()

... and the job is done (though you may also want to use strip() to remove leading and trailing spaces:

trimmed_text = text.strip()

This should give:

>>> print trimmed_text
This is a sample text
>>>

as desired.