Iterating Through Table Rows in Selenium (Python)

Correction of the Selenium part of @Padraic Cunningham's answer:

table = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//table[@class='datadisplaytable']")

for row in table.find_elements_by_xpath(".//tr"):
    print([td.text for td in row.find_elements_by_xpath(".//td[@class='dddefault']")])

Note: there was one missing round bracket at the end; also removed the [1] index, to match the first XML example.

Another note: Though, the example with the index [1] should also be preserved, to show how to extract individual elements.

XPath is fragile. It's better to use CSS selectors or classes:

mytable = find_element_by_css_selector('table.datadisplaytable')
for row in mytable.find_elements_by_css_selector('tr'):
    for cell in row.find_elements_by_tag_name('td'):
        print(cell.text)

If you want to go row by row using an xpath, you can use the following:

h  = """<table class="datadisplaytable">
<tr>
<td class="dddefault">16759</td>
<td class="dddefault">MATH</td>
<td class="dddefault">123</td>
<td class="dddefault">001</td>
<td class="dddefault">Calculus</td>
<td class="dddefault"></td>
<td class="dddead"></td>
<td class="dddead"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="dddefault">16449</td>
<td class="dddefault">PHY</td>
<td class="dddefault">456</td>
<td class="dddefault">002</td>
<td class="dddefault">Physics</td>
<td class="dddefault"></td>
<td class="dddead"></td>
<td class="dddead"></td>
</tr>
</table>"""

from lxml import html
xml = html.fromstring(h)
# gets the table
table =  xml.xpath("//table[@class='datadisplaytable']")[0]


# iterate over all the rows   
for row in table.xpath(".//tr"):
     # get the text from all the td's from each row
    print([td.text for td in row.xpath(".//td[@class='dddefault'][text()])

Which outputs:

['16759', 'MATH', '123', '001', 'Calculus']
['16449', 'PHY', '456', '002', 'Physics']

Using td[text()] will avoid getting any Nones returned for the td's that hold no text.

So to do the same using selenium you would:

table =  driver.find_element_by_xpath("//table[@class='datadisplaytable']")

for row in table.find_elements_by_xpath(".//tr"):
    print([td.text for td in row.find_elements_by_xpath(".//td[@class='dddefault'][1]"])

For multiple tables:

def get_row_data(table):
   for row in table.find_elements_by_xpath(".//tr"):
        yield [td.text for td in row.find_elements_by_xpath(".//td[@class='dddefault'][text()]"])


for table in driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//table[@class='datadisplaytable']"):
    for data in get_row_data(table):
        # use the data