Question

Is there anyway of simplifying (merging) this query I am using with beautifulsoup?

    table  = soup.findAll("tr", {'class' : 'table-tempo-row' })
    tablec = soup.findAll("tr", {'class' : 'table-tempo-row-alt' })

    for i in (table + tablec):
        tableb = i.findAll("td")

thanks.

Answer 1

You can pass in a list:

table = soup.findAll("tr", {'class' : ['table-tempo-row', 'table-tempo-row-alt'] })

and BS will match tr elements with either class.

For more complex cases, you can pass in a regular expression, or a function (takes the element and returns a boolean).