From e06a2c29799dededad127b7e28289ecce16e56ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ritwizsinha <ritwizsinha0@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 21:05:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Update read_html docs

---
 pandas/io/html.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/io/html.py b/pandas/io/html.py
index db4c5f8507946..4b8bc48130fab 100644
--- a/pandas/io/html.py
+++ b/pandas/io/html.py
@@ -1178,7 +1178,10 @@ def read_html(
     **after** `skiprows` is applied.
 
     This function will *always* return a list of :class:`DataFrame` *or*
-    it will fail, i.e., it will *not* return an empty list.
+    it will fail, i.e., it will *not* return an empty list, save for some
+    rare cases.
+    It might return an empty list in case of inputs with single row and
+    ``<td>`` containing only whitespaces.
 
     Examples
     --------