I am trying to scrape amazon reviews for a certain product, but I am unable to locate the text for the ratings using selenium. But the same thing is easily scraped using soup. Link to page: https://www.amazon.in/BenQ-inch-Bezel-Monitor-Built/product-reviews/B073NTCT4R/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_next_2?ie=UTF8…
Beautiful Soup findAll() finds half of them
I’m trying to scrape information on the price of offices in France and I successfully developed the code to scrape all the information I needed. Though, I quickly noticed that something was wrong with the number of outputs and more precisely that my algorithm was returning only half of the occurences pr…
Convert dynamic XML file to CSV file – Python
I would like to convert this XML file: to this CSV file: I can have several bodies of ID structures. I use the lxml library. I tried with the xpath method and for loop but I can only get the ID but not the rest. The problem is the second for loop, but I don’t know how to deal with
How to cache pip packages within Azure Pipelines
Although this source provides a lot of information on caching within Azure pipelines, it is not clear how to cache Python pip packages for a Python project. How to proceed if one is willing to cache Pip packages on an Azure pipelines build? According to this, it may be so that pip cache will be enabled by def…
How would I create a bar plot with multiple start and end points on a single date?
I’ve been trying to assist my wife, who is tracking her time per client for a day, by visualising her time spent working each day coloured by clients. Here is an example of what I’m trying to achieve in Python (constructed in Excel for reference, code contains data of the sample). Thank you for al…
How to save Python 1D, 2D or 3D NumpPy array into MATLAB .mat
Python’s SciPy package has a function that saves Python variable into MATLAB’s .mat file https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.io.savemat.html However, the documentation lacks examples, and I don’t know what is the dictionary of variables it wants as an input. Say I have…
Convert x-axis from days to month in matplotlib
i have x-axis which is in terms of days (366 days Feb was taken as 29 days) but instead I want to convert it in terms of months (Jan – Dec). What should i do… Answer I think the quickest change might be to just set new ticks and tick labels at the starts of months; I found the conversion
How to parse a LUA Table and push to SQL Database using Python?
I play a game called DCS (Digital Combat Simulator) and was looking to export in game statistics to a database and later recall with PHP on a webpage. The game saves code to a LUA Table and sample data is shown below… Categories show the aircraft type, time in air, planes killed, type of plane, total pl…
Extract individual links from a single youtube playlist link using python
I need a python script that takes link to a single youtube playlist and then gives out a list containing the links to individual videos in the playlist. I realize that same question was asked few years ago, but it was asked for python2.x and the codes in the answer don’t work properly. They are very wei…
How to stop a method being called when accesing its attributes like return values
The question is the following: How to stop a method being called when its attributes are, in fact, return values, that are necessary in another method, of another class. This is how the program was written: Calling var1.m3() returns this result, which is repeating the function calls, because of the p and natt…