Data Parsing Old Website Python no error but no results when running

[crm2017]

I am parsing an old state website for a project and I cannot get the python code to work.

I have typed in the code I made back into the developer console and it works perfectly there but in python it just returns:

C:\Python27\python.exe "C:/Users/corinne/PycharmProjects/scc docket/SCC V1.py"
[]

Process finished with exit code 0



The code I have created is:

from lxml import html
import requests
page = requests.get('http://www.scc.virginia.gov/docketsearch#dailyFilings')
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)
 
 
dailyFilings = tree.xpath('//*[contains(@class,"details-brief")]//td[1]/text()')
print dailyFilings

can anyone please help me??

[dwblas]

I get a "no module named lxml error". Are you using standard Python? Also some basic debugging should be done first. Print "page" and "tree"to see if those 2 lines are working. Generally I use urllib and BeautifulSoup (or roll my own) so don't know anything about lxml, but maybe someone else will know more.

[crm2017]

Thanks for responding!

I'm using JetBrains PyCharm 3.1 Community Edition.

I have never used urlib and BeautifulSoup, are you able to give me a simple example of parsing using those?

[dwblas]

A general tutorial http://swordstyle.com/func_test_tuto...tifulsoup.html but depends on what you want from the page. Also look at http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/py...soup-4-python/