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    <p>I recently started working on a program in python which allows the user to conjugate any verb easily. To do this, I am using the urllib module to open the corresponding conjugations web page. For example, the verb "beber" would have the web page:</p> <blockquote> <p>"<a href="http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/beber" rel="nofollow">http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/beber</a>"</p> </blockquote> <p>To open the page, I use the following python code:</p> <pre><code>source = urllib.urlopen("http://wwww.spanishdict.com/conjugate/beber").read() </code></pre> <p>This source does contain the information that I want to parse. But, when I make a BeautifulSoup object out of it like this:</p> <pre><code>soup = BeautifulSoup(source) </code></pre> <p>I appear to lose all the information I want to parse. The information lost when making the BeautifulSoup object usually looks something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="verb-pronoun-row"&gt; yo &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt; bebo &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt; bebí &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt; bebía &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt; bebería &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class=""&gt; beberé &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; </code></pre> <p>What am I doing wrong? I am no professional at Python or Web Parsing in general, so it may be a simple problem.</p> <p>Here is my complete code (I used the "++++++" to differentiate the two):</p> <pre><code>import urllib from bs4 import BeautifulSoup source = urllib.urlopen("http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/beber").read() soup = BeautifulSoup(source) print source print "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++" print str(soup) </code></pre>
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    3. COI also tested it here, and didn't notice any information loss. In particular, when calling `str(soup)` and searching it I found the exact text you pasted above (*Edit:* same with `soup.prettify()`). Maybe your problem is in the way you're trying to retrieve that info, so please post the code where you use `soup`.
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