pd.read_html() convert
to space · Issue #29528 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

import pandas as pd pd.read_html('http://vybary2019.by/regions/49.html',header=0)[0]

Problem description

In original web page the first cell of table contains three separate words.

In pandas table the first cell contains only two words, with first word being the join of the former two first.

[why the current behaviour is a problem]
Because during pandas parsing there is a data loss that is non-trivial to fix.

The reason for this behaviour is the presence of <br> tag between first two words in original content.

<br> should be converted to space or at least to a new line when converting to text representation.

I found the similar reference in #14608 (comment) but no separate GitHub issue.

Expected Output

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : None python : 3.6.8.final.0 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 4.14.137+ machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 0.25.3
numpy : 1.17.3
pytz : 2018.9
dateutil : 2.6.1
pip : 19.3.1
setuptools : 41.4.0
Cython : 0.29.13
pytest : 3.6.4
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 1.8.5
blosc : None
feather : 0.4.0
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.2.6
html5lib : 1.0.1
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : 2.7.6.1 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64)
jinja2 : 2.10.3
IPython : 5.5.0
pandas_datareader: 0.7.4
bs4 : 4.6.3
bottleneck : 1.2.1
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
lxml.etree : 4.2.6
matplotlib : 3.1.1
numexpr : 2.7.0
odfpy : None
openpyxl : 2.5.9
pandas_gbq : 0.11.0
pyarrow : 0.14.1
pytables : None
s3fs : 0.3.5
scipy : 1.3.1
sqlalchemy : 1.3.10
tables : 3.4.4
xarray : 0.11.3
xlrd : 1.1.0
xlwt : 1.3.0
xlsxwriter : None