title: BeautifulSoup find all table empty
body: <p>I am trying to scrape a very simple table from a NOAA website: <a href="https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/samples/PRECIP_HLY_sample_ascii.dat" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/samples/PRECIP_HLY_sample_ascii.dat</a></p>
  
  <p>The table is a ".dat" file and the site appears to be in html. When I use BeautifulSoup to read the content, I can see the content just fine. However, when I then search for the table with "find_all" or "find," I get nothing, i.e., [].</p>
  
  <p>Here is my initial code: </p>
  
  <pre><code>page = requests.get('https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/samples/PRECIP_HLY_sample_ascii.dat')
  soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content,'html.parser') #'html5lib' #'html.parser' 'lxml'
  table = soup.find_all('table')     
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I type soup, I get the following:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NlVwx.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NlVwx.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>However, when I try to get the info into a table, it comes up blank</p>
  
  <pre><code>table
  &gt;&gt; []
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried the following variations: </p>
  
  <pre><code>page = urllib.request.urlopen('https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/samples/PRECIP_HLY_sample_ascii.dat').read()
  
  soup = BeautifulSoup(page,'lxml')
  soup = BeautifulSoup(page,'html5lib') #'' #''
  
  table = soup.findAll('table') 
  table = soup.findAll("div",{"class":"line-gutter-backdrop"}) 
  table = soup.find_all(True)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, table still comes up blank. </p>
  
  <p>I found this question that appears to be similar:<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45072879/cannot-find-table-using-python-beautifulsoup">Cannot find table using Python BeautifulSoup</a></p>
  
  <p>But my table is not in javascript (as far as I know). It is just text. </p>
  
  <p>I am very new to data scraping and really have no idea why this simple example is not working. Any help is very appreciated. Thank you. </p>