Get a list of world's countries

get_countries.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Get a list of world's countries
@author: misalabs
"""
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Get countries
countries_html = requests.get('http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Pa%C3%ADses_del_mundo')

# Construct Soup
page_countries = BeautifulSoup(countries_html.text)
table_countries = page_countries.findAll('table')[0]

countries_all = []
for idx, row in enumerate(table_countries.findAll('tr')):
    cells_country = row.findAll('td')[1:2]
    for country in cells_country:
        countries_all.append(country.getText())

print countries_all