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    <p>I am trying to pull some financial data for city governments using BeautifulSoup (had to convert the files from pdf). I just want to get the data as a csv file and then I'll analyze it in Excel or SAS. My problem is that I do not want to print the "&amp; nbsp;" that is in the original HTML, just the numbers and the row heading. Any suggestions on how I can do this without using regex?</p> <p>Below is a sample of the html I am looking at. Next is my code (currently just in proof of concept mode, need to prove I can get clean data before moving on). New to Python and programming so any help is appreciated.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <pre><code>&lt;TD class="td1629"&gt;Investments (Note 2)&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td1605"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td479"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td1639"&gt;-&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td386"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td116"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td1634"&gt;2,207,592&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td479"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td1605"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td1580"&gt;2,207,592&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td301"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td388"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt; &lt;TD class="td1637"&gt;2,882,018&lt;/TD&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>CODE</p> <pre><code>import htmllib import urllib import urllib2 import re from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup CAFR = open("C:/Users/snown/Documents/CAFR2004 BFS Statement of Net Assets.html", "r") soup = BeautifulSoup(CAFR) assets_table = soup.find(True, id="page_27").find(True, id="id_1").find('table') rows = assets_table.findAll('tr') for tr in rows: cols = tr.findAll('td') for td in cols: text = ''.join(td.find(text=True)) print text+"|", print </code></pre>
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