def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
"""
Uses get_html() -- via data_helper module --
to get HTML for parsing. Then uses BeautifulSoup
to parse it. Then uses the .select() method to
pick the Tag elements that contain inmate info
Args:
none
Returns:
<list>: a list of <bs4.Element.Tag> objects, each one looking like:
<tr>
<td>999608</td>
<td align="center"><a href="dr_info/hudsonwilliam.html" title="Offender Information for William Hudson">Offender Information</a></td>
<td>Hudson</td>
<td>William</td>
<td>07/03/1982</td>
<td align="center">M</td>
<td>White</td>
<td>11/16/2017</td>
<td>Anderson</td>
<td>11/14/2015</td>
</tr>
"""
## fill this out for yourself...
txt = get_html()
soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'lxml')
return soup.select('table.tdcj_table tr')[1:]
def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
txt = get_html(
) #str: the contents of the file at DATA_FILEPATH as a big text string
soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'lxml')
records = soup.select('tr')[1:]
return records
"""
def test_data_helper_get_html():
"""
Makes sure that this returns a str object and that
it seems to contain the kind of data we expect for this page
"""
txt = data_helper.get_html()
assert isinstance(txt, str)
# sanity checks to make sure the file is what we expect
# in terms of content
assert '<h1>Death Row Information</h1>' in txt
assert 'Information for Eric Williams' in txt
def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
"""
A convenience function that calls the functions needed to
fetch the webpage, parse it as HTML, and return a list of bs4 <Tag>
objects, each one derived from the HTML for a table row
that ostensibly contains info about a TX death row inmate
Should call on functionality in the `data_helper.py` script (i.e. get_html())
Args:
None
Returns:
<list>: A list of bs4.Tag objects
"""
html = data_helper.get_html()
return BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml').select('table.tdcj_table tr')[1:]
def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
"""
A convenience function that calls the functions needed to
fetch the webpage, parse it as HTML, and return a list of bs4 <Tag>
objects, each one derived from the HTML for a table row
that ostensibly contains info about a TX death row inmate
Should call on functionality in the `data_helper.py` script (i.e. get_html())
Args:
None
Returns:
<list>: A list of bs4.Tag objects, of the <tr> type
"""
### Fill in yourself, should be exactly the same
### as from the function found in checker.py
### of txdeathrow_check exercise
txt = data_helper.get_html()
soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'lxml')
return soup.select('table.tdcj_table tr')[1:]
def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
"""
A convenience function that calls the functions needed to
fetch the webpage, parse it as HTML, and return a list of bs4 <Tag>
objects, each one derived from the HTML for a table row
that ostensibly contains info about a TX death row inmate
Should call on functionality in the `data_helper.py` script (i.e. get_html())
Args:
None
Returns:
<list>: A list of bs4.Tag objects, of the <tr> type
"""
txt = data_helper.get_html()
soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'lxml')
tag = soup.select('tr')
rows = []
for x in tag:
rows.append(x)
return rows[1:]
from data_helper import get_html
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
txt = get_html()
soup = BeautifulSoup(txt, 'lxml')
rows = soup.select('tr')
def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
"""
Uses get_html() -- via data_helper module --
to get HTML for parsing. Then uses BeautifulSoup
to parse it. Then uses the .select() method to
pick the Tag elements that contain inmate info
Args:
none
Returns:
<list>: a list of <bs4.Element.Tag> objects, each one looking like:
<tr>
<td>999608</td>
<td align="center"><a href="dr_info/hudsonwilliam.html" title="Offender Information for William Hudson">Offender Information</a></td>
<td>Hudson</td>
<td>William</td>
<td>07/03/1982</td>
<td align="center">M</td>
<td>White</td>
<td>11/16/2017</td>
<td>Anderson</td>
<td>11/14/2015</td>
</tr>
"""
## fill this out for yourself...
def get_and_parse_inmate_rows():
soup = BeautifulSoup(get_html(), 'lxml')
rows = soup.select('tr')
return rows[1:]
