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I am trying to get Premier league table with this code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import requests url ="http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb.html" r = requests.get(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content) table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'leagueTable'}) rows = table.findAll('tr') data = [[td.text for td in tr.findAll("td")] for tr in rows] for i in data: print i

Everything works perfect, except I get results in unicode. How to convert it into plain text?

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    Is this helpful? stackoverflow.com/questions/1207457/… Commented May 10, 2014 at 8:25
  • You can encode your Unicode stings. But why do yo want it? Commented May 10, 2014 at 8:35

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You can change the line to text.encode("utf-8"):

data = [[td.text.encode("utf-8") for td in tr.findAll("td")] for tr in rows] or str(td.text)

Lots of info in the BeautifulSoup docs

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