Get state FIPS codes from Gov

getfipsabbrev.py

import requests
import bs4 as BeautifulSoup

def get_states():
    page = requests.get("http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/state.html").content
    soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(page)
    def findstates(tr):
        tds = tr.find_all('td')
        for td in tds:
            a = td.find_all("a")
            if a:
                return(a[0].text)
    vals = map(findstates, soup.find_all('tr'))
    return(filter(None, vals))

states = get_states()