Cannot get Pandas to concat/append - python-3.x

Question

I'm trying to parse a website's tables and I'm pretty noobish still. For each link only the second table/dataframe is appended to the SS. There are multiple links and therefore it requires a while loop. Using what little I could find only I am just stuck with this which Im pretty sure is totally off:
import pandas as pd
from pandas import ExcelWriter
a=1
alist = []
writer = ExcelWriter('name.xlsx')
def dffunc():
dfs = pd.read_html('http://websitepath{}.htm'.format(a))
df = dfs[1]
alist.append(df,ignore_index=True)
alist = pd.concat(df, axis=0)
while a<9:
dffunc()
a+=1
alist.to_excel(writer, index=False)
writer.save()

Answer 1

df=dfs[1] takes the second table in the list. Is that what you want?

Answer 2

old:
df = dfs[1]
alist.append(df,ignore_index=True)
alist = pd.concat(df, axis=0)
You're appending the 2nd table in the dfs collection to global alist
You're assigning the 2nd table in the dfs collection to alist, undoing all previous steps
Operating on a global var that is written to file once at the end of the loop defeats the purpose of your loop given second bullet; alist will only ever take on the value of the 2nd table in the last query when you write to file
new:
import pandas as pd
from pandas import ExcelWriter
writer = ExcelWriter('name.xlsx')
writer_kwargs = {'index': False}
A = 9
def dffunc(a):
dfs = pd.read_html('http://websitepath{}.htm'.format(a))
return pd.concat(dfs, axis=0)
def dfhandler(df, writer, **kwargs):
df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name=a, **kwargs)
for a in xrange(1, A):
dfhandler(dffunc(a), writer, **writer_kwargs)
writer.save()