[Tutor] using BeautifulSoup

[jonasmg at softhome.net]

>jonasmg at softhome.net wrote:
>> Hi!   
>> 
>> I'm trying to use BeautifulSoup for get data from a table (on right) from:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states   
>> 
>> i.e. i would get data from 'Calling code' that it would be '+1'   
>> 
>>  ----------------------   
>> 
>> import urllib2
>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup   
>> 
>> url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states"
>> html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
>> soup = BeautifulSoup()
>> soup.feed(html) 

> You just have to find some kind of ad hoc search that gets you to where 
> you want to be. I would try something like this:

> anchor = soup.fetch('a', dict(href="/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes"))

> code = anchor.findNext('code')
> print code.string

> Presumably you want this to work for other country pages as well; you 
> will have to look at the source, see what they have in common and search 
> on that.

> Kent

anchor.findNext('code') fails: 

anchor = soup.fetch('a', {'href': '/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes'})
print anchor 

 [<a href="/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes" title="List of country
calling codes">Calling code</a>] 

anchor.findNext('code')
[] 

P.S. : Sorry for my last email, I was wrong with the subject