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scrape atomic weight information from IUPAC
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iupacAtW.py
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen("http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/AtWt/index.html").read())
t = soup.findAll("table")[2]
print [ [item.text for item in row.findAll("td")] for row in t.findAll("tr") ]
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