Get HTML table into pandas Dataframe, not list of dataframe objects

Question

I apologize if this question has been answered elsewhere but I have been unsuccessful in finding a satisfactory answer here or elsewhere.

I am somewhat new to python

Answer 1

pd.read_html returns you a list with one element and that element is the pandas dataframe, i.e.

df = pd.read_html(url) ###<-- List

df[0] ###<-- Pandas DataFrame

Answer 2

From http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.1/io.html#io-read-html, "read_html returns a list of DataFrame objects, even if there is only a single table contained in the HTML content".

So df = df[0].dropna(axis=0, thresh=4) should do what you want.