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test bs4 + lxml
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gistfile1.py
from lxml.html import parse
url = 'http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html'
doc = parse(url)
print len(doc.xpath('.//table')) > 0
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from contextlib import closing
from urllib2 import urlopen
with closing(urlopen(url)) as f:
soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), features='lxml')
print len(soup.find_all('table')) > 0
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cpcloud commented Jun 3, 2013

FINALLY i can repro this when using anaconda...

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