Question

I am working on lxml for fetching the html page.
I want to fetch the html table which have the class name as ‘class1’.
I have done something like this :

for span in doc.xpath('//table[@class="class1"]'):
print span

But,
after this I found that there are 4 tables in HTML page which have class name as ‘class1’.
for example :

table A
table B
table C
table D

these all 4 tables have the same class name.
how I can fetch only table B?

Answer 1

You can just get the second item of list:

result = doc.xpath('//table[@class="class1"]')
if len(result) > 1:
  print result[1]

Or if your table has id, you can get it via xpath:

print doc.xpath('//table[@id="you id"]')[0]