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Arevos · May 22nd, 2006, 12:04 PM

It only searches within table 3. If you want to seach the whole site, use:

soup.fetch("td")

But if you just want to search a subsection (say, table 3), use:

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soup.fetch("table")[3].fetch("td")

Indeed, it makes more sense if you think of it from a "what belongs to what" perspective. The first "fetch" belongs to the "soup" object. The second "fetch" belongs to the table 3 object. Thus, the first fetch searches the whole of the site, whilst the second just searches table 3.

May 22nd, 2006, 12:04 PM	#109
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	It only searches within table 3. If you want to seach the whole site, use: (Toggle Plain Text) soup.fetch("td") soup.fetch("td") But if you just want to search a subsection (say, table 3), use: (Toggle Plain Text) soup.fetch("table")[3].fetch("td") soup.fetch("table")[3].fetch("td") Indeed, it makes more sense if you think of it from a "what belongs to what" perspective. The first "fetch" belongs to the "soup" object. The second "fetch" belongs to the table 3 object. Thus, the first fetch searches the whole of the site, whilst the second just searches table 3.