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    <p>EDIT: thanks a lot for all the answers an points raised. As a novice I am a bit overwhelmed, but it is a great motivation for continuing learning python!!</p> <p>I am trying to scrape a lot of data from the European Parliament website for a research project. The first step is to create a list of all parliamentarians, however due to the many Eastern European names and the accents they use i get a lot of missing entries. Here is an example of what is giving me troubles (notice the accents at the end of the family name):</p> <pre><code>&lt;td class="listcontentlight_left"&gt; &lt;a href="/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&amp;amp;id=28276" title="ANDRIKIENĖ, Laima Liucija"&gt;ANDRIKIENĖ, Laima Liucija&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) &lt;br/&gt; &lt;/td&gt; </code></pre> <p>So far I have been using PyParser and the following code:</p> <pre><code>#parser_names name = Word(alphanums + alphas8bit) begin, end = map(Suppress, "&gt;&lt;") names = begin + ZeroOrMore(name) + "," + ZeroOrMore(name) + end for name in names.searchString(page): print(name) </code></pre> <p>However this does not catch the name from the html above. Any advice in how to proceed?</p> <p>Best, Thomas</p> <p>P.S: Here is all the code i have so far:</p> <pre><code># -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import urllib.request from pyparsing_py3 import * page = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder.do?letter=B&amp;language=EN") page = page.read().decode("utf8") #parser_names name = Word(alphanums + alphas8bit) begin, end = map(Suppress, "&gt;&lt;") names = begin + ZeroOrMore(name) + "," + ZeroOrMore(name) + end for name in names.searchString(page): print(name) </code></pre>
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