On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 5:28:55 PM UTC-5, Laura Creighton wrote: > 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
Ok. How do I post the error traceback? I'm using Spyder Python 2.7. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
