How to find nodes using Beautiful Soup

Question

I have a html code:

<table>
<tr>
   <td><table><tr><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td><table><tr><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>4</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
</table>

I want to find all tr in first table. I usually using

for tr in soup.findAll('tr'):

But i will get all tr (tr in main table and in sub table). How to get tr in main table only?

Answer 1

How about this?

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup("""
<table>
<tr>
   <td><table><tr><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td><table><tr><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>4</td></tr></table></td>
</tr>
</table>
""")

for tr in soup.find('table').find_all('tr', recursive=False):
    print tr

recursive=False helps to find only top-level tags (see docs).