In a message of Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:03:10 -0800, ryguy7272 writes: >I'm looking at this URL. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names > >If I hit F12 I can see tags such as these: ><a title= ><a class= >And so on and so forth. > >I'm wondering if someone can share a script, or a function, that will allow me >to pass in variables and download (or simply print) the results. I saw a >sample online that I thought would work, and I made a few modifications but >now I keep getting a message that says: ValueError: All objects passed were >None > >Here's the script that I'm playing around with. > >import requests >import pandas as pd >from bs4 import BeautifulSoup > >#Get the relevant webpage set the data up for parsing >url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names"; >r = requests.get(url) >soup=BeautifulSoup(r.content,"lxml") > >#set up a function to parse the "soup" for each category of information and >put it in a DataFrame >def get_match_info(soup,tag,class_name): > info_array=[] > for info in soup.find_all('%s'%tag,attrs={'class':'%s'%class_name}): > return pd.DataFrame(info_array) > >#for each category pass the above function the relevant information i.e. tag >names >tag1 = get_match_info(soup,"td","title") >tag2 = get_match_info(soup,"td","class") > >#Concatenate the DataFrames to present a final table of all the above info >match_info = pd.concat([tag1,tag2],ignore_index=False,axis=1) > >print match_info > >I'd greatly appreciate any help with this.
Post your error traceback. If you are getting Value Errors about None, then probably something you expect to return a match, isn't. But without the actual error, we cannot help much. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
