Cant find table with soup.findAll('table')

[Fidel N]

Hi:

Im using soup.findAll('table') to try to find the table in an html file, but it will not appear.

The table indeed exists in the file (Did this by open the file, F12,find the table code):

And the code Im using to call the file with BeautifulSoup is:

import sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
with open(r'c:\blabla\filepath.html', 'r') as f:
    webpage = f.read()
print BeautifulSoup(webpage).findAll('table')

If I try with other tags it will work, such as:

print BeautifulSoup(webpage).findAll('html')

Shouldnt this return the table instead of an empty list? 

[CHUX]

Well, I'd say you should show the contents of the HTML, at least to help people try to decipher what the problems might me. What I know is that if it comes to BeautifulSoup, there are many ways to skin a cat. I've been try to hack something out of a file for the better part of today. It's all part of the learning process!

[Fidel N]

Yes, sorry, I thought that the image alone was enough, here is one example that it wont find containing table tag, I just copied it from inside the file:

<BR>
</P>
<TABLE WIDTH=533 BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
<COL WIDTH=51>
<COL WIDTH=172>
<COL WIDTH=43>
<COL WIDTH=265>
<TR VALIGN=TOP>

I tried capital letters, not capital, any combination, with no luck. Thanks! 

[Fidel N]

Hey, just as another confirmation, I am able to find "TABLE" within the given file by using regex.

So the following code will work for the re.findall part, but not for the soup one:

import sys
import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
webpage = open(r'd:\samplefile.html', 'r').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(webpage)
print re.findall("TABLE",webpage)   #works, prints ['TABLE','TABLE']
print soup.findAll("TABLE")   # prints an empty list []

Any clue what could be wrong here? Thanks!

[Fidel N]

the file is here, just in case someone wants to have a look at it:

http://jsbin.com/EjaqegU/3/watch?html,output

Still no success trying to find the table, although as you see its in the document and easily found through regex.

[Paracha]

I am using bs4 (version 4.3.0) and having the exact same proplem.

[Arturo]

And why do you write findAll instead of find_all?