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gdogg371
gdogg371

Reputation: 4122

Remove spaces between items returned in a list

If my understanding of the below code I have is correct Python is returning a list from a the source code of a web page that I am scraping (the data is not stored within any HTML tags, hence why I'm not using XPath or anything to scrape the data I want):

from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
from scrapy.selector import Selector
from scrapy.item import Item
from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
import re
import json

class ExampleSpider(CrawlSpider):
    name = "goal4"
    allowed_domains = ["whoscored.com"]
    start_urls = ["http://www.whoscored.com"]
    download_delay = 1

    rules = [Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(allow=(''),deny=('/News', '/Fixtures', '/Graphics', '/Articles', '/Live', '/Matches', '/Explanations', '/Glossary', '/Players', 'ContactUs', 'TermsOfUse'),), follow=False, callback='parse_item')]

    def parse_item(self, response):

        sel = Selector(response)

        match1 = re.search(re.escape("DataStore.prime('stage-player-stat', defaultTeamPlayerStatsConfigParams.defaultParams , ") \
                     + '(\[.*\])' + re.escape(");"), response.body)

        if match1 is not None:
            playerdata1 = match1.group(1)

            for player in json.loads(playerdata1):

                player['Name'],',',player['FirstName'],',',player['LastName']

I've worked out how put a comma between the data elements I am printing, but this is printing with a space between each element and the comma, in the following fashion:

Name , FirstName , LastName

How can I get it so that it is printed like this instead:

Name,FirstName,LastName

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 246

Answers (2)

Padraic Cunningham
Padraic Cunningham

Reputation: 180441

Use str.format

print("{Name},{FirstName},{LastName}".decode().format(**player)) # gets values of keys specified in format args from player

Upvotes: 1

user2684182
user2684182

Reputation:

Simply player['Name'] + ',' + player['FirstName'] + ',' + player['LastName'] will do what you want. The reason for this is that , concatenates <space><string> where <space> is whitespace and <string> is your string.

Upvotes: 3

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