On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:49:11 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2014 11:31 AM, "tad na" <tedd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK . second problem :)
> > I can print the date. not sure how to do this one..
> Why not? What happens when you try?
> > try:
> > from urllib2 import urlopen
> > except ImportError:
> > from urllib.request import urlopen
> > import urllib2
> > from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
> > soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen('http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock.rss'))
> > #print soup.find_all('item')
> > #print (soup)
> > data = soup.find_all("item")
> > x=0
> > for item in soup.find_all('item'):
> > title = item.find('title').text
> > link = item.find('link').text
> > date = item.find('pubDate')
> > # print date
> > print('+++++++++++++++++')
> > print data[x].title.text
> > print data[x].link.text
> > print data[x].guid.text
> > print data[x].pubDate
> > x = x + 1
> data[x] should be the same object as item, no? If you want to keep track of
> the current iteration index, a cleaner way to do that is by using enumerate:
> for x, item in enumerate(soup.find_all('item')):
> As far as printing the pubDate goes, why not start by getting its text
> property as you do with the other tags? From there you can either print the
> string out directly or parse it into a datetime object.
This is the error I get with
1. print data[x].pubDate.text
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'
2. print data[x].pubDate
It results in "None"
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