import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = BeautifulSoup(open(r'World City Populations 2023.html'), 'html.parser')
cities = html.find('table').find_all('a')

file = open('citylist.txt', 'w')

for i in range (6, len(cities), 2):
    #print(cities[i].get_text())
    file.write(cities[i].get_text() + '\n')

file.close()