Summary I would like to parse a string that represents a Python argument list into a form that I can forward to a function call. Detailed version I am building an application in which I would like to be able to parse out argument lists from a text string that would then be converted into the *args,**kwargs pattern to forward
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Database connection string parsing in python
Given a database connection string structure (such like one you can find here) what’s the best way to parse a real URI string and get their component like user, password, database name and host? Thank you very much Answer There is a Python library for that: python 2: urlparse python 3: urllib.parse
Parsing html using Selenium – class name contains spaces
I’m trying to parse some html using Selenium. The problem is that it raises error in case the class name contains spaces. Here is the tag I’m searching for: <p class=”p0 ng-binding”>text</p> I’ve tried these two options: Could anybody give me a hint? Answer The p element has two classes: p0 and ng-binding. Try this selector:
Replacing tags of one kind with tags of another in BeautifulSoup
I have a collection of HTML files. I wish to iterate over them, one by one, editing the mark-up of a particular class. The code I wish to edit is of the following form, using the following class names : This can occur multiple times in the same document, with different text instead of “Put me Elsewhere”, but always the
Curl works but urllib doesn’t [closed]
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. This question appears to be off-topic because it lacks sufficient information to diagnose the problem. Describe your problem in more detail or include a minimal example in the question itself. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question Whenever I curl this, I’m able to get
URL query parameters to dict python
Is there a way to parse a URL (with some python library) and return a python dictionary with the keys and values of a query parameters part of the URL? For example: expected return: Answer Use the urllib.parse library: The urllib.parse.parse_qs() and urllib.parse.parse_qsl() methods parse out query strings, taking into account that keys can occur more than once and that
Equivalent to InnerHTML when using lxml.html to parse HTML
I’m working on a script using lxml.html to parse web pages. I have done a fair bit of BeautifulSoup in my time but am now experimenting with lxml due to its speed. I would like to know what the most sensible way in the library is to do the equivalent of Javascript’s InnerHtml – that is, to retrieve or set
Extracting an attribute value with beautifulsoup
I am trying to extract the content of a single “value” attribute in a specific “input” tag on a webpage. I use the following code: I get TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str Even though, from the Beautifulsoup documentation, I understand that strings should not be a problem here… but I am no specialist, and I may have
Python : How to convert markdown formatted text to text
I need to convert markdown text to plain text format to display summary in my website. I want the code in python. Answer The Markdown and BeautifulSoup (now called beautifulsoup4) modules will help do what you describe. Once you have converted the markdown to HTML, you can use a HTML parser to strip out the plain text. Your code might
How do I parse a string to a float or int?
How can I convert a str to float? How can I convert a str to int? For the reverse, see Convert integer to string in Python and Converting a float to a string without rounding it. Please instead use How can I read inputs as numbers? to close duplicate questions where OP received a string from user input and immediately