python - 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".

import requests
website_url = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_of_Canada:_M').text
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(website_url,'xml')
print(soup.prettify())

My_table = soup.find('table',{'class':'wikitable sortable'})
My_table

links = My_table.findAll('a')
links

Neighbourhood = []
for link in links:
    Neighbourhood.append(link.get('title'))

print (Neighbourhood)

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame([])
df['PostalCode', 'Borough', 'Neighbourhood'] = pd.Series(Neighbourhood)

df

And it returns only the borough...

Thanks

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