I have this python script which works with no problem on ubuntu 16.04 But it wont get data in ubuntu 18.04, any idea what the problem could be? No errors. Output: Full code is here : https://github.com/papampi/nvOC_by_fullzero_Community_Release/blob/Dual-cuda/WTM_SWITCHER Answer Since you’re using the R…
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Python scraping website shows unknown url type: view-source
I am trying to do scraping in Python. Then, I want to scrape a stock-info website. But I failed, I don’t know why. It gives the error below: But when I used Chrome I can view the source code by right-click. Answer Try removing view-source: from your url_src, in essence: I think view-source: is Chrome sp…
Unable to Load an Image from an URL at TKinter
My goal is to display an JPG image from an URL using tkinter python. This is the stackoverflow link that I used as a reference. But when I try to run the code, I have received a bunch of error such as: KeyError: b’R0l……. AttributeError: ‘PhotoImage’ object has no attribute ‘…
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode characters
I’m trying to scrape a website, but it gives me an error. I’m using the following code: And I’m getting the following error: What can I do to fix this? Answer I fixed it by adding .encode(“utf-8”) to soup. That means that print(soup) becomes print(soup.encode(“utf-8”)…
Python3: JSON POST Request WITHOUT requests library
I want to send JSON encoded data to a server using only native Python libraries. I love requests but I simply can’t use it because I can’t use it on the machine which runs the script. I need to do it without. My server is a local WAMP server. I always get an urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500:…
Replace special characters in a string in Python
I am using urllib to get a string of html from a website and need to put each word in the html document into a list. Here is the code I have so far. I keep getting an error. I have also copied the error below. Here is the error. Answer str.replace is the wrong function for what you want
Only add to a dict if a condition is met
I am using urllib.urlencode to build web POST parameters, however there are a few values I only want to be added if a value other than None exists for them. That works fine, however if I make the orange variable optional, how can I prevent it from being added to the parameters? Something like this (pseudocode…
How to urlencode a querystring in Python?
I am trying to urlencode this string before I submit. Answer You need to pass your parameters into urlencode() as either a mapping (dict), or a sequence of 2-tuples, like: Python 3 or above Use urllib.parse.urlencode: Note that this does not do url encoding in the commonly used sense (look at the output). For…
How do I catch a specific HTTP error in Python?
I have but what I end up is catching any kind of HTTP error. I want to catch only if the specified webpage doesn’t exist (404?). Answer Python 3 Python 2 Just catch HTTPError, handle it, and if it’s not Error 404, simply use raise to re-raise the exception. See the Python tutorial. Here is a compl…
Can’t download YouTube video
I’m having trouble retrieving the YouTube video automatically. Here’s the code. The problem is the last part. download = urllib.request.urlopen(download_url).read() There’s an error message (thanks Wooble): Answer The code on the original question relies on several assumptions about the content of YouTube pag…