parse_table¶

pyrcs.utils.parse_table(source, parser='lxml')[source]¶

Parse HTML <tr> elements for creating a data frame.

Parameters

source (requests.Response) – response object to connecting a URL to request a table
parser (str) – 'lxml' (default), 'html5lib' or 'html.parser'

Returns

a list of lists each comprising a row of the requested table (see also parse_tr()) and a list of column names of the requested table

Return type

tuple

Examples:

>>> from pyrcs.utils import fake_requests_headers, parse_table

>>> source_ = requests.get('http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/elrs/elra.shtm',
...                        headers=fake_requests_headers())

>>> parsed_contents = parse_table(source_, parser='lxml')
>>> type(parsed_contents)
<class 'tuple'>
>>> type(parsed_contents[0])
<class 'list'>
>>> type(parsed_contents[1])
<class 'list'>