[Tutor] Parsing html tables and using numpy for subsequent processing

[Gerard Flanagan]

David Kim wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've finally gotten around to my 'learn how to parse html' project. For 
> those of you looking for examples (like me!), hopefully it will show you 
> one potentially thickheaded way to do it.
>[...]
> 
> The code can be found at pastebin: 
> http://financialpython.pastebin.com/f4efd8930
> The original html can be found at 
> http://www.dtcc.com/products/derivserv/data/index.php (I am pulling and 
> parsing tables from all three sections).
> 

Doing something similar at the minute if you want to compare:

     http://bitbucket.org/djerdo/tronslenk/src/tip/data/scrape_translink.py


Not very pretty, but I imagine there are very few pretty examples of 
this kind of thing. I'll add more comments...honest. Nothing obviously 
wrong with your code to my eyes.

Regards

g.