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element tree treats similar files differently
Here are two different files that my python (2.6) script encounters. One will parse, the other will not. I'm just curious as to why this happens.
This xml file will not parse and the script will ...
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python: algorithm to filter almost same text
I have a list of strings (topics on forum), like:
"[John Smith] Hello my friend 1080p"
"It was him! by Ronnie"
"new: Hello, my friend, J. Smith"
"Askade la bonko"
...
"Smith John: Hello my friend! ...
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Getting items from rss in python [closed]
I'm trying to get a list of all "link" items from this feed:
http://www.ezrss.it/feed/
Here's what I have so far as pseudo code.
from xml.dom import minidom
f = open('c:/torrents/download.xml', ...
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How can I strip the first 14 characters in an list element using python?
I have a txt file, from which I need to search a specific line, which is working, but in that line I need to strip the first 14 characters, and the part of the list element I am interested is ...
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Python Urllib Urlopen won't return after new line?
I'm trying to get authenticated by an API I'm attempting to access. I'm using urllib.parse.urlencode to encode the parameters which go in my URL. I'm using urllib.request.urlopen to fetch the content.
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match numbers in multiple lines
I have an HTML text like this
<tr>
<td><strong>Turnover</strong></td>
<td width="20%" class="currency">£348,191</td>
...
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Python 3 replacement of string regex
I am working with a html script converted into a string
How do I replace all the html code in tags with blank using regex?
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7answers
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How to parse a string and return a nested array?
I want a Python function that takes a string, and returns an array, where each item in the array is either a character, or another array of this kind. Nested arrays are marked in the input string by ...
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Trouble parsing xml archive using Element Tree
Python + programming noob here, so you may have to bear with me. I have a number of xml files (RSS archives) and I want to extract news article urls from them. I'm using Python 2.7.3 on Windows... and ...
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find string of arbitrary length before a known string
Just say I have a string such as:
Lecture/NNP/B-NP/O delivered/VBD/B-VP/O at/IN/B-PP/B-PNP the/DT/B-NP/I-PNP UNESCO/NNP/I-NP/I-PNP House/NNP/I-NP/I-PNP in/IN/B-PP/B-PNP Paris/NNP-LOC/B-NP/I-PNP
I ...
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3answers
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Parsing data from text file
I have a text file that has content like this:
******** ENTRY 01 ********
ID: 01
Data1: 0.1834869385E-002
Data2: 10.9598489301
Data3: ...
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Parse Python Configuration File for Java Programs
I have not found anything of this sort on Google and would like to know if there is a quicker way of doing the following:
I need to parse build scripts for Java programs which are written in Python. ...
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5answers
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How can I get data from other websites? [closed]
I want to create a website that sustracts information from other websites and print them into my website, I am on research step, so I would like to hear some opinions and what's the best solution to ...
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3answers
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Searching text in a PDF using Python?
Problem
I'm trying to determine what type a document is (e.g. pleading, correspondence, subpoena, etc) by searching through its text, preferably using python. All PDFs are searchable, but I haven't ...
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Python parse words from URL string
I have a large data set of urls and I need a way to parse words from the urls eg:
realestatesales.com -> {"real","estate","sales"}
I would prefer to do it in python. This seems like it should ...
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Questions about HTML parsing
This is a program we've written for html parsing.
It works perfectly.
We found a demo program on the net, and we modified it for our needs.
But we don't understand how it works.
import urllib
from ...
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Converting Parser element to Class Object
I Have tried out the following code for Converting parser element to a class object
But it did n't work properly ..... Hope some one can help me to solve it ...
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
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python - parse string (which is an array) returned from a web service as array/list
I am using
httplib.HTTPConnection(self._myurl)
conn.request("GET", "/")
data = conn.getresponse().read()
now this URL returns an python type arrays similar to the below:
[1,"apple",23,"good"]
...
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3answers
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How to parse a python Loops using a python script?
My main objective is to parse python loops such that i can insert few statements for my analysis.
Normal code:
#A.py
[code Starts]
.
.
.
while [condition]:
[statements]
[statements]
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1answer
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Parse data from 2 log files in Python [closed]
I need to parse thread number, run number and test number from file1, match the test number in file2 and write both these values into a new file.
The first file has the following content:
com-0 ...
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read multiple lines from one TSV file and based on column append data with comma
How do we parse data based on column index from TSV file?
Once we read data from file then we must have to check column 0 line 1 data with column 0 line 2 data and if it's matching then get column 1 ...
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3answers
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Efficient Parser for large XMLs
I have very large XML files to process. I want to convert them to readable PDFs with colors, borders, images, tables and fonts. I don't have a lot of resources in my machine, thus, I need my ...
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2answers
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Parsing multiple lines in Python
I'm currently learning Python and I need to write a program which determines the word which appears the most times in a poem. Problem which is troubling me is about parsing a lines of a poem into a ...
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2answers
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Python 3 Finding the last number in a string
How can I find the last number in any big string?
For eg in the following string I want 47 as the output:
'tr bgcolor="aa77bb"td>font face="verdana"color="white" ...
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1answer
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Python 3 Regex Last Match
How do I grab the 123 part of the following string using Python 3 regex module?
....XX (a lot of HTML characters)123
Here the ... Part denotes a long string consisting of HTML characters, words and ...
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1answer
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parsing xml tags in a specific order in python
I want to load some tags with a specified order from an xml file into python as below:
<data>
<testset name="ts1" order="1" descrption="this is ts1 descrption">
<testcase ...
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1answer
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Parse elements out of markdown
I want to parse markdown files for specific elements (such as links) and get values out of those elements, and I fail to find a way for that using python-markdown package.
Is it possible to do it ...
0
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1answer
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Python: Unable to access macro in Jinja
I am trying to use a macro in a jinja file. Here is my code:
{{ display(class = "hello") }}
{% macro display(class) %}
this is a macro
{% endmacro %}
It's pretty simple, and from what I have ...
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2answers
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parsing file with curley brakets
I need to parse a file with information separated by curly brackets, for example:
Continent
{
Name Europe
Country
{
Name UK
Dog
{
Name Fiffi
Colour Gray
}
Dog
{
Name Smut
Colour Black
}
...
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3answers
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log file parsing python
I have a logfile with arbitratry number of lines. All I need is to extract is one line of data from the log file which starts with a string “Total”. I do not want any other lines from the file.
How ...
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Python: variable “tricking” try-exception, but works for if statement
I know the title seems crazy, but it is true. Here is my predicament. First, I am still a beginner at Python so please be considerate. I am trying to test if a variable exists. Now the variable ...
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2answers
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Unable to parse into JSON object in Python
I have search every where but no one stated this error before.
The obj will return a unicode object but it will return the following error
Exception Type: AttributeError
Exception ...
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2answers
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using numerical filters to define what print list is used (I assume if filters)
I have some code which parses an xml file obtained from a url, using the following code:
pattern4 = re.compile('title=\'Naps posted: (.*) Winners:')
pattern5 = re.compile('Winners: (.*)\'><img ...
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Searching for multiple kinds of tags at once using Beautiful Soup 4
I am trying to use find_all to get all of the instances of several tag types (I don't care about class), in order, for a bit of soup using bs4.
I want to do something like this:
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Parse csv file python or bash [closed]
I need to parse a CSV file.
I would like to use python or bash but I can not find anything that would be suitble.
In the CSV file if it containts a keyword in col 6 for any of the rows i would like ...
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Python - how to use optparse callback in order to change an int variable and then use it
I want to add options to my python program, such that the user will enter his choice (-c, -l, -lc, etc...) and my optparse will add the choices in prime numbers or something in order to know what the ...
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Giving each data set a name
So I have a code
print
latOne = dL[1][3]
lonOne = dL [1][4]
x = [calculateDistance(latOne, lonOne, latTwo, lonTwo ) for latTwo, lonTwo in zip(latitude, longitude)]
print x
this produces distance ...
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2answers
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Escaped Strings in Parsing Expression Grammars
I am attempting to write a grammar for a small language utility using the python library parsimonious, but I am struggling with writing a part, which covers strings, especially strings with escaped ...
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1answer
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Robust json parser in Python or Java
I'm looking for a robust json parser in either Python or Java (so far, I've been working with Python, but as I'm using it to analyze a Java benchmark, using Java is a reasonable alternative.)
Robust ...
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How to extract particular key from HTTP cookies in Python?
Trying to get a particular value from the cookie string of an HTTP request in Python. I believe possibly using the requests library or urllib2 would be a good idea.
Example:
Assume
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Script STOPS when Source URL is not Status 200
I have a script (see below) that checks (more or less) linkpositions on a website, it works fine but as soon as the source url on which the link lies is not a 200 response it will quit, I just want it ...
3
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1answer
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Algorithm for parsing expressions in python?
I have next algorithm for parsing expressions in Python:
def parse(strinput):
for operator in ["+-", "*/"]:
depth = 0
for p in range(len(strinput) - 1, -1, -1):
if strinput[p] == ')': ...
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1answer
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Regular expression to replace “escaped” characters with their originals
NOTE: I'm not parsing lots of or html or generic html with regex. I know that's bad
TL;DR:
I have strings like
A sentence with an exclamation\! Next is a \* character
Where there are "escaped" ...
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python matching list items
I'm using python 2.6
current output
mylist = [('log:A', '1009.2'), ('log:B', '938.1'), ('log:C', '925.7'), ('log:C', '925.7')]
I'am trying to add the values to produce the follow:
Ranked highest to ...
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python career statistic final
I'm building a top 10 list of career statistics in python 2.6
html_log:jeff 1153.3 1.84 625:54 1 2 71 3 2 10 7:58 499 3 5 616:36 241 36
html_log:fred 28.7 1.04 27:34 -10 18 13 0:48 37 18 8 -3.63
...
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2answers
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python statistic top 10
using python 2.6
I have large text file.
Below are the first 3 entries, but there are over 50 users I need to check.
html_log:jeff 1153.3 1.84 625:54 1 2 71 3 2 10 7:58 499 3 5 616:36 241 36 ...
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2answers
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Why does this python procedure not produce an output after I have parsed the JSON file?
Using this json data I parsed the information correctly but after assigning the parsed data to a variable and running it through the procedure I dont get an output, why?
{"maps":[{"id":"blabla i am ...
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3answers
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splitting a dot delimited string into words but with a special case
Not sure if there is an easy way to split the following string:
'school.department.classes[cost=15.00].name'
Into this:
['school', 'department', 'classes[cost=15.00]', 'name']
Note: I want to ...
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1answer
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Python XML iterate over multiple blocks
I have an python XML parsing problem that I can't seem to figure out.
I have the following XML:
<data>
<data_in base="base64">
</data_in>
<log_sense_data>
<ds ...
0
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1answer
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Edit content in BeautifulSoup ResultSet
My goal in the end is to add up the number within the BeautifulSoup ResultSet down here:
[<span class="u">1,677</span>, <span class="u">114</span>, <span ...
