Beautifulsoup returns None, what's the point?

Question

Python

I could not find the answer to the simplest question: if BS works without errors and as a result of parsing returns None, does this mean that there is no such element?
ps I'm trying to parse the VK friends search page

Answer 1

The documentation states that if find can't find anything, it returns None. www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find

Answer 2

def get_html(url):
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
return response.read()
openfile= open('./files/nadym1.3.html','w',encoding='utf-8')
def parse(html):
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"lxml")
table = soup.find('table ', class_='fl_r')
news = []
#print(link)
print(table)