parse a table on a wikipedia page in python

main.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# the url of the wikipedia page with the table
url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)'

# send a GET request to the page and get its HTML content
response = requests.get(url)
html_content = response.content

# parse the HTML content with BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')

# locate the table element by its class or other attributes
table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'wikitable sortable'})

# extract the data from the table rows
for row in table.find_all('tr'):
    cells = row.find_all('td')
    if len(cells) > 0:
        # extract the data from the cells and process it as needed
        country = cells[1].text.strip()
        population = cells[2].text.strip()
        print(country, population)
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