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zem52887 · May 23rd, 2006, 3:48 PM

Wow, what a fantastic analogy, and a life lesson too

so now that I have tested each of the functions under:

def get_company_data(company_url):
        soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(company_url))
        #Company Profile
        profile = soup.fetchText(re.compile("Company Profile"))[2]
        companyprofile = profile.findNext("table")
        
        #Contact Information
        contact = soup.firstText(re.compile("Contact Information"))
        contacttable = contact.findParent("table")

       #Financial Highlights
        highlights = soup.firstText(re.compile("Highlights"))
        fhighlights = highlights.findParent("table")

        z = len(highlights)
        if z == 0:
            print "N/A"

        else:
            print fhighlights

        #Key People
        key = soup.firstText(re.compile("Key People"))
        keypeople = key.findParent("table")

and see that they work, I need to add in a return statement. Is this return statement under the def_get_company_names, or is it after the for loops at the end of the script?

also, should it look something like:

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return[company_profile, contacttable, fhighlights, keypeople]

Okay I'm excited that this is all coming together but I don't really know where to go from here. I'm not ready to import into a CSV yet, am I? I don't know how to combine each of the functions with the for-loops etc., and I could use some help formatting the return statement for def_get_company_data. Thanks for everyone who's helped thus far.

May 23rd, 2006, 3:48 PM	#142
zem52887 Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 127 Rep Power: 3	Wow, what a fantastic analogy, and a life lesson too so now that I have tested each of the functions under: (Toggle Plain Text) def get_company_data(company_url): soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(company_url)) #Company Profile profile = soup.fetchText(re.compile("Company Profile"))[2] companyprofile = profile.findNext("table") #Contact Information contact = soup.firstText(re.compile("Contact Information")) contacttable = contact.findParent("table") #Financial Highlights highlights = soup.firstText(re.compile("Highlights")) fhighlights = highlights.findParent("table") z = len(highlights) if z == 0: print "N/A" else: print fhighlights #Key People key = soup.firstText(re.compile("Key People")) keypeople = key.findParent("table") def get_company_data(company_url): soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(company_url)) #Company Profile profile = soup.fetchText(re.compile("Company Profile"))[2] companyprofile = profile.findNext("table") #Contact Information contact = soup.firstText(re.compile("Contact Information")) contacttable = contact.findParent("table") #Financial Highlights highlights = soup.firstText(re.compile("Highlights")) fhighlights = highlights.findParent("table") z = len(highlights) if z == 0: print "N/A" else: print fhighlights #Key People key = soup.firstText(re.compile("Key People")) keypeople = key.findParent("table") and see that they work, I need to add in a return statement. Is this return statement under the def_get_company_names, or is it after the for loops at the end of the script? also, should it look something like: (Toggle Plain Text) return[company_profile, contacttable, fhighlights, keypeople] return[company_profile, contacttable, fhighlights, keypeople] Okay I'm excited that this is all coming together but I don't really know where to go from here. I'm not ready to import into a CSV yet, am I? I don't know how to combine each of the functions with the for-loops etc., and I could use some help formatting the return statement for def_get_company_data. Thanks for everyone who's helped thus far. Last edited by zem52887; May 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 PM.