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By : Matthew Harrison, Theodore Petrou
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Pandas 1.x Cookbook

Pandas 1.x Cookbook

4.5 (28)
By: Matthew Harrison, Theodore Petrou

Overview of this book

The pandas library is massive, and it's common for frequent users to be unaware of many of its more impressive features. The official pandas documentation, while thorough, does not contain many useful examples of how to piece together multiple commands as one would do during an actual analysis. This book guides you, as if you were looking over the shoulder of an expert, through situations that you are highly likely to encounter. This new updated and revised edition provides you with unique, idiomatic, and fun recipes for both fundamental and advanced data manipulation tasks with pandas. Some recipes focus on achieving a deeper understanding of basic principles, or comparing and contrasting two similar operations. Other recipes will dive deep into a particular dataset, uncovering new and unexpected insights along the way. Many advanced recipes combine several different features across the pandas library to generate results.
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Reading HTML tables

You can use pandas to read HTML tables from websites. This makes it easy to ingest tables such as those found on Wikipedia or other websites.

In this recipe, we will scrape tables from the Wikipedia entry for The Beatles Discography. In particular, we want to scrape the table in the image that was in Wikipedia during 2019:

Wikipedia table for studio albums

Wikipedia table for studio albums

How to do it...

  1. Use the read_html function to load all of the tables from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_discography:
    >>> url = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_discography
    >>> dfs = pd.read_html(url)
    >>> len(dfs)
    51
    
  2. Inspect the first DataFrame:
    >>> dfs[0]
      The Beatles discography The Beatles discography.1
    0  The Beat...             The Beat...
    1  Studio a...                      23
    2  Live albums                       5
    3  Compilat...                      53
    4  Video al...                 ...
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