CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python-3.5beautifulsoup
vincent
vincent

Reputation: 1678

AttributeError: ' ' object has no attribute 'soup'

When l call the following function

def get_words(self):
    blocks = self.soup.find_all("block", {"blockType": lambda x: x not in ('Separator', 'SeparatorsBox')})

    wrds_blcks = []

    for i, block in enumerate(blocks):
        if block['blockType'] == 'Table':
            rslt = self._get_words_from_block_table(block)

        else:
            rslt = self._get_words_from_block_text(block)

        rslt = self._cleanup_word(rslt)
        if rslt != [[]] and rslt != []:
            wrds_blcks.append(rslt)

    return wrds_blcks

l get the following error

 in get_words
    blocks = self.soup.find_all("block", {"blockType": lambda x: x not in ('Separator', 'SeparatorsBox')})
AttributeError: 'AbbyExtractor' object has no attribute 'soup'

referring to the first line : 

 blocks = self.soup.find_all("block", {"blockType": lambda x: x not in ('Separator', 'SeparatorsBox')})

What's wrong ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 370

Answers (1)

MD. Khairul Basar
MD. Khairul Basar

Reputation: 5110

You need to make the soup first. Pass the html code retrieved from the webpage as an argument to the get_words method. And make the soup. Then do your tasks.

def get_words(self, html):

    self.soup = BeautifulSoup(html,"lxml")
    blocks = self.soup.find_all("block", {"blockType": lambda x: x not in ('Separator', 'SeparatorsBox')})

    wrds_blcks = []

    for i, block in enumerate(blocks):
        if block['blockType'] == 'Table':
            rslt = self._get_words_from_block_table(block)

        else:
            rslt = self._get_words_from_block_text(block)

        rslt = self._cleanup_word(rslt)
        if rslt != [[]] and rslt != []:
            wrds_blcks.append(rslt)

    return wrds_blcks

Upvotes: 1

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