how to get tbody from table from python beautiful soup ?

Question

I\'m trying to scrap Year & Winners ( first & second columns ) from \"List of finals matches\" table (second table) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIFA_W

Answer 1

If you are inspecting through the inspect tool in the browser it will insert the tbody tags.

The source code, may, or may not contain them. I suggest looking at the source view if you really want to know.

Either way, you do not need to traverse to the tbody, simply:

soup.findAll('table')[0].findAll('tr') should work.