io.html.read_html returning table "twice"

[phaebz]

Forgive the markup indentation.

from pandas.io.html import read_html
read_html('http://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data/auction/auction-table/2005-10-25/DE',
attrs={'class': 'list hours responsive'},
skiprows=1,
parse_dates=False)

returns a list of two data frames where the first one is equivalent to read_html() without the parse_dates arg and the second one is the one expected to be returned by calling read_html() with parse_dates arg.

Am I missing something?

[cpcloud]

If you're using Google Chrome then you can right click anywhere on the page and click "View page source". This will show you that the page contains two tables with the class attribute value that you've shown, so two tables will be returned. They are different tables, which you can see by looking at their respective cells.

[phaebz]

Thanks for the clout behind the ears. I had wrong assumptions that did hold for other dates / other HTML markup on the site. For now using manual xpath via lxml.

Opened #5389 for FR.