Beautifulsoup and differences for python3x

Thank you for the tutorial! I did it with python3, so there were a few differences. But there's also been a change for BeautifulSoup that affected my install at least.

Here's what I found

I encountered a problem installing Beautiful soup, which was solved by installing 'beautifulsoup4'. The biggest difference I noticed was importing, as noted below.
Instead of having to remove &nbsp, another character showed up.
CSV works differently for Python3, but it wasn't difficult to find that solution.

Below is the final code with notes on the key differences I encountered. Thanks again!

import csv
import requests

# Installing 'beautifulsoup' failed on my Mac. Going to the BeautifulSoup page I found that it's recommended to install 'BeautifulSoup4', which worked. When importing, use bs4 as shown below

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'http://www.showmeboone.com/sheriff/JailResidents/JailResidents.asp'
response =requests.get(url)
html = response.content
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
table = soup.find('table', attrs={'class': 'resultsTable'})

list_of_rows = []
for row in table.findAll('tr')[1:]:
    list_of_cells = []
    for cell in row.findAll('td'):
# &nbsp wasn't a problem on the page, but \xaO was. It was simple enough to swap out the two, but I wonder - how would I have the text.replace work for more than one character problem?
        text = cell.text.replace('\xa0','')
        list_of_cells.append(text)
    list_of_rows.append(list_of_cells)

# Here's the key difference for Python3x. Found this using a quick search on stackoverload, of course.

filename = 'inmates.csv'
with open(filename, 'w', newline='') as f:
    writer =csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerow(["Last", "First", "Middle", "Gender", "Race", "Age", "City", "State"])
    writer.writerows(list_of_rows)

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