On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:42:00 -0800, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Hello experts. I'm looking at this url:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to list all 'a title' elements.
a is the element tag, title is an attribute of the htmlanchorelement.
co
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:42 PM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Hello experts. I'm looking at this url:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
Wildly offtopic but interesting, easy way to grab/analyze Wikipedia
data using F# instead of Python
http://evelinag.com/blog/2015/11-18-f-tac
Chris, Marko, thank you both for your links and explanations!
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Regular expressions can handle any regular language just fine. They are
> commonly used to define the lexical tokens of a language.
Not sure about _defining_ them, but they're certainly often used to
_recognize_ them, eg in syntax highligh
Grobu :
> Sorry, I wasn't aware of regex being on the dark side :-)
No, regular expressions are great for many purposes. Parsing
context-free syntax isn't one of them.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy#The_hierarchy>
Most modern programming languages including HTML are con
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Grobu wrote:
> On 26/11/15 00:06, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:48 AM, ryguy7272 wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks!! Is that regex? Can you explain exactly what it is doing?
>>> Also, it seems to pick up a lot more than just the list I wanted, but
>
On 26/11/15 00:06, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:48 AM, ryguy7272 wrote:
Thanks!! Is that regex? Can you explain exactly what it is doing?
Also, it seems to pick up a lot more than just the list I wanted, but that's
ok, I can see why it does that.
Can you just please expla
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Wow! Awesome! I bookmarked that link!
> Thanks for everything!!!
Also bookmark this link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags
And read it before you do any parsing of HTML using
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 6:34:00 PM UTC-5, Grobu wrote:
> On 25/11/15 23:48, ryguy7272 wrote:
> >> re.findall( r'\]+title="(.+?)"', html )
> [ ... ]
> > Thanks!! Is that regex? Can you explain exactly what it is doing?
> > Also, it seems to pick up a lot more than just the list I wanted
On 25/11/15 23:48, ryguy7272 wrote:
re.findall( r'\]+title="(.+?)"', html )
[ ... ]
Thanks!! Is that regex? Can you explain exactly what it is doing?
Also, it seems to pick up a lot more than just the list I wanted, but that's
ok, I can see why it does that.
Can you just please explain wha
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:48 AM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Thanks!! Is that regex? Can you explain exactly what it is doing?
> Also, it seems to pick up a lot more than just the list I wanted, but that's
> ok, I can see why it does that.
>
> Can you just please explain what it's doing???
It's a trap!
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 5:30:14 PM UTC-5, Grobu wrote:
> Hi
>
> It seems that links on that Wikipedia page follow the structure :
>
>
> You could extract a list of link titles with something like :
> re.findall( r'\]+title="(.+?)"', html )
>
> HTH,
>
> -Grobu-
>
>
> On 25/11/15 21
Hi
It seems that links on that Wikipedia page follow the structure :
You could extract a list of link titles with something like :
re.findall( r'\]+title="(.+?)"', html )
HTH,
-Grobu-
On 25/11/15 21:55, MRAB wrote:
On 2015-11-25 20:42, ryguy7272 wrote:
Hello experts. I'm looking at this
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:04 AM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Ok, I guess that makes sense. So, I just tried the script below, and got
> nothing...
>
> import requests
> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>
> r =
> requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names";)
> soup = Beautiful
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 3:42:21 PM UTC-5, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Hello experts. I'm looking at this url:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to list all 'a title' elements. For instance, I
> see the following:
> Accident
> href=
On 2015-11-25 20:42, ryguy7272 wrote:
Hello experts. I'm looking at this url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
I'm trying to figure out how to list all 'a title' elements. For instance, I
see the following:
Accident
Ala-Lemu
Alert
Apocalypse Peaks
So, I tried putti
Hello experts. I'm looking at this url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
I'm trying to figure out how to list all 'a title' elements. For instance, I
see the following:
Accident
Ala-Lemu
Alert
Apocalypse Peaks
So, I tried putting a script together to get 'title'. He
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