At this point I feel like I am wasting my time by not asking for help. I can't figure out why the file keeps coming back empty. There are no error message, just an empy file. Very frustrating.
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import urllib2 import csv wiki = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Golden_Globe_winners"; header = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'} req = urllib2.Request(wiki,headers=header) page = urllib2.urlopen(req) soup = BeautifulSoup(page) drama = "" musical_comedy = "" drama_actor = "" musical_comedy_actor = "" drama_actress = "" musical_comedy_actress = "" director = "" table = soup.find("table", {"class": "wikitable"}) f = open('output.csv','w') for row in table.findAll("tr"): cells = row.findAll("td") if len(cells) == 7: drama = cells[0].find(text=True) musical_comedy = cells[1].find(text = True) drama_actor = cells[2].find(text=True) musical_comedy_actor = cells[3].find(text=True) drama_actress = cells[4].find(text=True) musical_comedy_actress = cells[5].find(text=True) director = cells[6].find(text=True) for x in range(len(drama_actor)): drama_actor_list = drama_actor[x].split("/") for i in range(len(drama_actor_list)): if (len(drama_actor_list[i]) > 2) and (len(drama_actor_list[i]) <=5): data = drama + "," + musical_comedy + "," + drama_actor_list[i].lstrip('\n').strip() + "," + musical_comedy_actor + "," + drama_actress + "," + musical_comedy_actress + "," + director + "," + "\n" print write_to_file f.write(write_to_file) f.close() *cynthia*andrews MCDM Candidate, Communication Leadership University of Washington <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiaaliceandrews> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
