[Tutor] BeautifulSoup - getting cells without new line characters

[jonasmg at softhome.net]

Kent Johnson writes: 

> jonasmg at softhome.net wrote:
>>  From a table, I want to get the cells for then only choose some of them.  
>> 
>> <table>
>> <tr>
>> <td>WY</td>
>> <td>Wyo.</td>
>> </tr>
>> ...
>> </table>  
>> 
>> Using:  
>> 
>> for row in table('tr'): print row.contents  
>> 
>>    ['\n', <td>WY</td>, '\n', <td>Wyo.</td>, '\n']
>>    [...]  
>> 
>> I get a new line character between each cell.  
>> 
>> Is possible get them without those '\n'? 
> 
> Well, the newlines are in your data, so you need to strip them or ignore 
> them somewhere. 
> 
> You don't say what you are actually trying to do, maybe this is close:
>    for row in table('tr'):
>      cellText = [cell.string for cell in row('td')]
>      print ' '.join(cellText) 
> 
> Kent 
> 
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I want only (for each row) to get some positions (i.e. 
row.contents[0],row.contents[2])