Fastest, easiest, and best way to parse an HTML table?

For your general problem: try lxml. Html from the lxml package (think of it as the stdlibs xml. Etree on steroids: the same xml api, but with html support, xpath, xslt etc...).

Avoid regular expressions for parsing HTML, they're simply not appropriate for it, you want a DOM parser like BeautifulSoup for sure...

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