How can I get the contents of the first `td` in a `table`

I want to take the content of the first td of a table in a HTML document. For example, I have this table:

<table class="bp_ergebnis_tab_info">
    <tr>
            <td>
                     This is a sample text
            </td>

            <td>
                     This is the second sample text
            </td>
    </tr>
</table>

How can I use Beautifulsoup to take the text "This is a sample text"? I use soup.findAll('table' ,attrs={'class':'bp_ergebnis_tab_info'}) to get the whole table.

The target is http://www.schulministerium.nrw.de/BP/SchuleSuchen?action=799.601437941842&SchulAdresseMapDO=142323

Note; since the html is a bit invalid - I think that we have to do some cleaning.

First find the table (as you are doing). Using find rather than findall returns the first item in the list (rather than returning a list of all finds - in which case we'd have to add an extra [0] to take the first element of the list):

table = soup.find('table' ,attrs={'class':'bp_ergebnis_tab_info'})

Then use find again to find the first td:

first_td = table.find('td')

Then use encode_contents() to extract the textual contents:

text = first_td.encode_contents()

... and the job is done (though you may also want to use strip() to remove leading and trailing spaces:

trimmed_text = text.strip()

This should give:

>>> print trimmed_text
This is a sample text
>>>

as desired.