code: def _parse(
      flavor, io, match, attrs, encoding, displayed_only, **kwargs
  ):
      flavor = _validate_flavor(flavor)
      compiled_match = re.compile(
          match
      )  # you can pass a compiled regex here
  
      # hack around python 3 deleting the exception variable
      retained = None
      for flav in flavor:
          parser = _parser_dispatch(flav)
          p = parser(
              io, compiled_match, attrs, encoding, displayed_only
          )
  
          try:
              tables = p.parse_tables()
          except Exception as caught:
              # if `io` is an io-like object, check if it's seekable
              # and try to rewind it before trying the next parser
              if hasattr(io, "seekable") and io.seekable():
                  io.seek(0)
              elif hasattr(io, "seekable") and not io.seekable():
                  # if we couldn't rewind it, let the user know
                  raise ValueError(
                      "The flavor {} failed to parse your input. "
                      "Since you passed a non-rewindable file "
                      "object, we can't rewind it to try "
                      "another parser. Try read_html() with a "
                      "different flavor.".format(flav)
                  )
  
              retained = caught
          else:
              break
      else:
          raise_with_traceback(retained)
  
      ret = []
      for table in tables:
          try:
              ret.append(_data_to_frame(data=table, **kwargs))
          except EmptyDataError:  # empty table
              continue
      return ret
  
imports: from distutils.version import LooseVersion
  import numbers
  import os
  import re
  import pandas.compat
  from pandas.compat import binary_type, iteritems, lmap, lrange, raise_with_traceback, string_types, u
  from pandas.errors import AbstractMethodError, EmptyDataError
  from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
  from pandas import Series
  from pandas.io.common import _is_url, _validate_header_arg, urlopen
  from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
  from pandas.io.parsers import TextParser
label_desc: Use image node_id 11 for calling a global function with example usage: _parse(flavor, io, match, attrs, encoding, displayed_only) and returns: ret