Extract text from html using BeautifulSoup - beautifulsoup

Question

I'm new to python and BeautifulSoup and need help writing a for loop to retrieve some text values from html. Also new to stack overflow :-)
I am able to crawl the webpage using the td tag below and find rows which have employees of a company that I want to add to a list. Not sure how to write the for loop that will disregard the tags and just retrieve the text value (ie employee names) from each row, and then add that to a new list, employees. So in example below, how do I retrive John Doe, Bob Smith etc and that to a list? Any help appreciated.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq
import re
url = 'my target URL'
target_url= uReq(url)
target_html = target_url.read()
soupy = soup(target_html, 'html.parser')
print(soupy.prettify())
employees = []
employees = soupy.findAll('td', headers= 'table5593r1')
employees
<td headers="'table5593r1">Mr John Doe</td>,
<td headers="'table5593r1">Dr Bob Smith</td>,
<td headers="'table5593r1">Dr Jane Do</td>,
<td headers="'table5593r1">Ms Mary Jane</td>,

Answer 1

This post shows how you can get the text of HTML elements/tags. In order to add the employee names to a new list, you could do the following:
employees = soupy.findAll('td', headers= 'table5593r1')
employeeNames = []
for employee in employees:
employeeName = employee.text
employeeNames.append(employeeName.strip())
I'd also recommend to take a further look into this post regarding the looping over a list of HTML elements.