I need to process a file like this and I need to transform it to a dict : I don’t succeed in any fast and elegant way to deal Answer Let me first specify what I have understood from your requirement. You input is a csv file, with optionaly quoted fields: ok the csv module can parse it The first
Tag: parsing
Pyparsing recursive type definition in DSL
I am parsing a domain specific language which has several type definitions. Primitive types have been relatively straight-forward to parse, but moving on to the complex types in the DSL have proven more challenging. I am looking for a strategy to recursively match a definition that can contain a reference to …
How do I save an Element Tree to a list based on an attribute in a child tag using Python’s LXML module?
I have an xml document that I have to parse. I’m using python 3.8 and the lxml module. The XML contains Titles which has other child element tags like the xml below. I need to only find the “change” events and keep that “Title” in a list. I would like to save all of the tags of t…
XML file parsing with Python
I am having trouble parsing data in this manner for an XML file which is converted to a CSV: For the first column, I would like to get the general name tag (recordingSystem, Ports, etc) and concatenate it with the subNames in the row tags (closedFileCount, processedFileCount, etc) The tag where the subName is…
Python Pandas – Read csv with commented header line
I want to read and process a csv file with pandas. The file (as seen below) contains multiple header lines which are indicated by a # tag. I can import that file easily by using However, I have a lot of such files with different header names and I don’t want to name them (Time Cd Cs …) manually. A…
How to print MLB data into Pandas DataFrame?
I am still learning how to web scrape and could use some help. I would like to print the MLB data into a Pandas DataFrame. It looks like the program does not run correctly but I did not receive an error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help that you may offer. Answer Th…
Get rid of default text
I am trying to parse a user’s event descriptions after obtaining access to their google calendar through the google calendar API. When I input the description into my program, I want to get rid of default (and useless) text such as Zoom meeting invitations. If the following below is the description stri…
How can I make this grammar unambiguous?
I’m trying to write a parser for a simple language: When I run it, I get the following error: I understand that this is happening because, if we imagine that the parser was built without an error, and then wrote parser.parse(‘foo’), both arithmetic_expr and boolean_expr would be “corre…
Taking multiple prices on single page BS4
I’m creating an to help me learn but is also useful to me. I want to be able to parse multiple prices from (https://www.watchfinder.co.uk/search?q=114060&orderby=AgeNewToOld) one page, convert them to numbers and average them. The page will change so it could have 3 prices one day and 20 the next. T…
Python Correctly Parse a Complex Object into a JSON format
I have the following which I’d like to parse it into JSON. The class has a list of item object also So, when I try to parse the instance of Item class, root.reprJSON() I get the following result. But I’d like to get the values of those item also into a single json object. I don’t know how to…