On 22/06/2015 02:41, Alex Kleider wrote:
On 2015-06-21 15:55, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 21/06/2015 21:04, Joshua Valdez wrote:
I'm having trouble making this script work to scrape information from a
series of Wikipedia articles.
What I'm trying to do is iterate over a series of wiki URLs and pull out
the page links on a wiki portal category (e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electronic_design).
I know that all the wiki pages I'm going through have a page links
section.
However when I try to iterate through them I get this error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./wiki_parent.py", line 37, in <module>
cleaned = pages.get_text()AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no
attribute 'get_text'
Presumably because this line
pages = soup.find("div" , { "id" : "mw-pages" })
doesn't find anything, pages is set to None and hence the attribute
error on the next line. I'm suspicious of { "id" : "mw-pages" } as
it's a Python dict comprehension with one entry of key "id" and value
"mw-pages".
Why do you refer to { "id" : "mw-pages" } as a dict comprehension?
Is that what a simple dict declaration is?
No, I'm simply wrong, it's just a plain dict. Please don't ask, as I've
no idea how it got into my head :)
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Mark Lawrence
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