codechef_contests.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from prettytable import PrettyTable

t = PrettyTable(['Code', 'Name', 'Start'])  # to create table

#print (t)

url = 'https://www.codechef.com/contests'

page = requests.get(url)  # send request to cc srver and returns the page

soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')  # store html content in soup

# print (soup.prettify()) #prettify() to print the html code in well intended form

# return the tables with class=dataTable
table = soup.findAll('table', class_="dataTable")

#print (len(table))

req_table = table[1]

tr = req_table.tbody.findAll('tr')  # tr from all tbody tag

#print (len(tr))

# td = tr[0].findAll('td') #find all td from tr[0]

#print (len(td))
#print (td[0].text)

for i in range(len(tr)):
    td = tr[i].findAll('td')
    # add_row takes a 'list' of data
    t.add_row([td[0].text, td[1].text, td[2].text])

print(t)