On Feb 16, 9:40 pm, galileo228 <mattbar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 8:48 pm, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > galileo228 <mattbar...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Using BeautifulSoup, mechanize, and urllib, I've constructed the
> > > following:
>
> > > br.open("http://www.school.edu/students/facebook/";)
> > > br.select_form(nr = 1)
>
> > > br.form['fulltextsearch'] = 'msb83' # this searches the facebook for
> > > me
> > > br.submit()
> > > results = br.response().read()
> > > soup = BeautifulSoup(results)
> > > foo2 = soup.find('td', attrs={'width':'95'})
> > > foo3 = foo2.find('a')
> > > foo4 = foo3.find('img', attrs={'src':'deliverImage.cfm?netid=msb83'})
> > > # this just drills down to the <img> line and until this point the
> > > program does not return an error
>
> > > save_as = os.path.join('./', msb83 + '.jpg')
> > > urllib.urlretrieve(foo4, save_as)>
> > > I get the following error msg after running this code:
>
> > > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'
>
> > Wild guess, since you didn't provide line numbers, etc.
>
> > foo4 is None
>
> > (I also would like to suggest to use more meaningful names)
>
> > --
> > John Bokma j3b
>
> I thought it was too, and I just doublechecked. It's actually
>
> foo3 = foo2.find('a')
>
> that is causing the NoneType error.
>
> Thoughts?
I've now fixed the foo3 issue, and I now know that the problem is with
the urllib.urlretrieve line (see above). This is the error msg I get
in IDLE:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Matt/Documents/python/dtest.py", line 59, in <module>
urllib.urlretrieve(foo4, save_as)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
python2.6/urllib.py", line 94, in urlretrieve
return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
python2.6/urllib.py", line 226, in retrieve
url = unwrap(toBytes(url))
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
python2.6/urllib.py", line 1033, in unwrap
url = url.strip()
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Is this msg being generated because I'm trying to retrieve a url
that's not really a file?
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