Question

I am looking to alter the following code so as t run it on python2.x and beautifulsoup3.x

import requests
import BeautifulSoup

session = requests.session()

pages = []

req = session.get('webpage')

content = req.content.split("</html>")


for page in content[:-1]:
    doc = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(page)

    name = doc.find('table', id='table2').find('table').findAll('td')[3].text
    print name

    tables = doc.findAll('table', id="conn")
    target_table = None
    for table in tables:
        try:
            title = table.find('thead').find('td').text
        except:
            title = None
        if title == 'ESME  DETAILS':
            target_table = table
            break
    if target_table:
        esme_trs = target_table.find('tbody').findAll('tr')
        for tr in esme_trs:
            print "\t", tr.find('td').text

Answer 1

The problem is that requests is not installed in the python2.X installation, only for python3.X

requests isn’t standard library so it doesnt’t come installed with python, so you need to install it manually.

See the instructions are on the requests website for how to install it.