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user1251965
user1251965

Reputation: 11

python requests: how to define a OR parameter

I am using the requests module in python to construct URLs for API queries. Following is the code that I am using:

Params = {'q':'3145','organism':'9606'}
results = requests.get("http://www.pathwaycommons.org/pc2/search.xml",params=Params)
print results.url  #http://www.pathwaycommons.org/pc2/search.xml?q=3146&organism=9606

I want to add an OR condition to the q parameter (q = 3145 or 177). The ultimate url would be http://www.pathwaycommons.org/pc2/search.xml?q=3146|177&organism=9606. If I used Params = {'q':['3145','177'],'organism':'9606'}, the output url is "http://www.pathwaycommons.org/pc2/search.xml?q=3146&q=177&organism=9606". I have not found any information about how to define a parameter dictionary for an OR condition. Could anybody give some idea?

Thank you in advance.

Wendy

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1410

Answers (1)

Blender
Blender

Reputation: 298196

This is the first time I've seen this "OR" syntax, so I'm not sure if it's standard.

Anyways, you could just join the parameter list to create a string, like so:

params = {
  'q': '|'.join(['3145','177']),
  'organism': '9606'
}

Upvotes: 5

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