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W.creator
W.creator

Reputation: 13

Python3 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'contents'

I am trying to create a very simple Python currency converter based off the xc.com currency converter website, however at the end of my program I get the following error:

line 16, in print(result.contents[0]) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'contents'

After researching similar NoneType AttributeErrors I understand that something is returning nothing but how can I find out what it is and where? Could I use the print statement earlier on in the code to find it?

Here is my code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

amount = input("Enter amount ")
currency1 = input("Enter currency1 ")
currency2 = input("Enter currency2 ")

url = "http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/" + "?Amount=" + 
amount + "&From=" + currency1 + "&To=" + currency2

html_code = requests.get(url).text

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_code, "html.parser")

result = soup.find('td', {'class', "rightCol"})

print(result.contents[0])

I am using IDLE version3.5.2 on Mac OS X El Capitan v 10.11.6(15G31) I installed Python 3.5.2 through homebrew.

Here is my IDLE3 output:

Python 3.5.2 (default, Aug  2 2016, 08:10:22) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> 
 RESTART: /c2.py 
Enter amount 100
Enter currency1 usd
Enter currency2 aud
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/c2.py", line 16, in <module>
    print(result.contents[0])
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'contents'
>>>

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Many thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2765

Answers (2)

norok2
norok2

Reputation: 26896

The exception is thrown because your result name is bind to a None object, which is likely an indication of BeautifulSoup.find failing for some reasons, possibly because there is , where I would expect a : here:

result = soup.find('td', {'class', "rightCol"})

to be changed to this?

result = soup.find('td', {'class': "rightCol"})

Upvotes: 1

DeepSpace
DeepSpace

Reputation: 81614

This error is pretty straightforward, result is None.

result = soup.find('td', {'class', "rightCol"})

You're passing find the set {'class', "rightCol"} instead of the
dictionary {'class': "rightCol"}

Upvotes: 3

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