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pythonhtml-parsingbeautifulsoup
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Reputation: 93

Python 'get_text()' not working

I am trying to compile the following code from parsing html but i come up with an error:

import string, urllib2, urlparse, csv, sys
from urllib import quote
from urlparse import urljoin
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from ast import literal_eval

changable_url = 'http://www.asusparts.eu/partfinder/Asus/All%20In%20One/E%20Series'
page = urllib2.urlopen(changable_url)
base_url = 'http://www.asusparts.eu'
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)

selects = []
redirects = []
model_info = []

#Opening csv writer
c = csv.writer(open(r"asus_stock.csv", "wb"))
#Object reader
cr = csv.reader(open(r"asus_stock.csv", "rb"))

print "FETCHING OPTIONS"
select = soup.find(id='myselectListModel')
selects.append(select)
print selects.get_text()

The error is:

print selects.get_text()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get_text'

How am i able to pass this error? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9669

Answers (3)

Daniel Aguirre
Daniel Aguirre

Reputation: 1

You need get an element in a list. Try selects[0].get_text() and it should work.

Upvotes: -2

Liam Hanninen
Liam Hanninen

Reputation: 1573

I see this error a lot.

This has to do with what variable you are applying get.text() to; get_text() is a function that works with Beautiful soup. So you have to re-soup select:

select2 = BeautifulSoup(select, "lxml")

"lxml" can be replaced by whatever parser you're using. If this doesn't work try turning select into a string first- and then doing the above variable function.

Upvotes: 1

Pep_8_Guardiola
Pep_8_Guardiola

Reputation: 5252

You are running the get_text() function on selects, which is a list. Lists don't have that function.

Should you not be running it on select itself? Or what about each element in selects:

for item in selects:
   print item.get_text()

Upvotes: 2

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