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methuselah
methuselah

Reputation: 13206

Regex and beautifulsoup returning "'NoneType' object is not callable" error

I am trying to implement the regex query at http://regexr.com/3dnut.

This is my code so far:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
r = urllib.urlopen('http://www.indeed.com/resumes?q=banking&l=london&co=GB&start=0').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(r, "lxml")
letters = soup.search("\/r\/([^:\/\s]+)\/(\w+)")
print letters

I am expecting an array of matches, but instead I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/cv-scraper/main.py", line 5, in <module>
    letters = soup.search("\/r\/([^:\/\s]+)\/(\w+)")
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

How do I resolve it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 183

Answers (1)

alecxe
alecxe

Reputation: 473863

There is no search() method in BeautifulSoup. The reason it throws this particular error is that the dot-notation has a special meaning - it is a shortcut to find(). soup.search is basically transformed into soup.find("search") which would try to find a tag search. It fails and returns None which then is being called. What you ended up with is None("\/r\/([^:\/\s]+)\/(\w+)") which fails with None is not callable, of course.

Upvotes: 1

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