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members-of-parliment.py
#!usr/bin/python
import urllib
from lxml import etree
import StringIO
url = "http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Alphabaticallist.aspx"
result = urllib.urlopen(url)
html = result.read()
parser = etree.HTMLParser()
tree = etree.parse(StringIO.StringIO(html), parser)
xpath = "//table[@id='ctl00_ContPlaceHolderMain_Alphabaticallist1_dg1']/tr[position()>1]/td[position()=2]/a/child::text()"
filtered_html = tree.xpath(xpath)
print filtered_html
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