Extracting selected columns from a table using BeautifulSoup

Question

I am trying to extract the first and third columns of this data table using BeautifulSoup. From looking at the HTML the first column has a tag. The o

Answer 1

you can try this code also

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
page =requests.get("http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k10State/NSDUHsae2010/NSDUHsaeAppC2010.htm")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')
for row in soup.findAll('table')[0].tbody.findAll('tr'):
    first_column = row.findAll('th')[0].contents
    third_column = row.findAll('td')[2].contents
    print (first_column, third_column)