scraping data from wikipedia table

Question

I\'m just trying to scrape data from a wikipedia table into a panda dataframe.

I need to reproduce the three columns: \"Postcode, Borough, Neighbourhood\".

Answer 1

You may be overthinking the problem, if you only want the script to pull one table from the page. One import, one line, no loops:

import pandas as pd
url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_of_Canada:_M'

df=pd.read_html(url, header=0)[0]

df.head()

    Postcode    Borough         Neighbourhood
0   M1A         Not assigned    Not assigned
1   M2A         Not assigned    Not assigned
2   M3A         North York      Parkwoods
3   M4A         North York      Victoria Village
4   M5A         Downtown Toronto    Harbourfront