split string problems

[Tempo]

Hey. I am trying to grab the prices from the string below but I get a
few errors when I try to do it: Take a look at the code and error
messages below for me and thanks you in advanced to all that help.
Thank you. Here's the code & error messages:
[<span class="sale">
$14.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$27.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$66.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$129.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$254.99

p.split()[2]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel-
p.split()[2]
AttributeError: 'ResultSet' object has no attribute 'split'

 

[John McMonagle]

[<span class="sale">
$14.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$27.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$66.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$129.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$254.99
</span>]

Worked alright for me (see below). Are you sure "p" is a string ?

Cut and paste from interactive python shell:
.... [<span class="sale">
.... $14.99
.... </span>, <span class="sale">
.... $27.99
.... </span>, <span class="sale">
.... $66.99
.... </span>, <span class="sale">
.... $129.99
.... </span>, <span class="sale">
.... $254.99
['[<span', 'class="sale">', '$14.99', '</span>,', '<span',
'class="sale">', '$27.99', '</span>,', '<span', 'class="sale">',

p.split()[2] '$14.99'

Regards,

John

 

[Andy Terrel]

try str(p).split()[2]

your class is using the __str__ attribute to print and I am guessing
that is what you are seeing.

Hey. I am trying to grab the prices from the string below but I get a
few errors when I try to do it: Take a look at the code and error
messages below for me and thanks you in advanced to all that help.
Thank you. Here's the code & error messages:
[<span class="sale">
$14.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$27.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$66.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$129.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$254.99

p.split()[2]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel-
p.split()[2]
AttributeError: 'ResultSet' object has no attribute 'split'

 

[Larry Bates]

Hey. I am trying to grab the prices from the string below but I get a
few errors when I try to do it: Take a look at the code and error
messages below for me and thanks you in advanced to all that help.
Thank you. Here's the code & error messages:
[<span class="sale">
$14.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$27.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$66.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$129.99
</span>, <span class="sale">
$254.99

p.split()[2]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel-
p.split()[2]
AttributeError: 'ResultSet' object has no attribute 'split'

The contents of p is rather "odd" looking. It isn't html that
was read from a website (note the commas after </span>). You
show it as if it is a list of strings, but the strings don't
have quotes around them. How are you creating the object p?
If you would just get it into a single string (with something
like:

x=urllib.urlopen(url)
p=x.read()

then you can use elementree, or beautiful soup to get your
prices quite easily.

-Larry

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Tempo wrote:
The contents of p is rather "odd" looking. It isn't html that
was read from a website (note the commas after </span>). You
show it as if it is a list of strings, but the strings don't
have quotes around them. How are you creating the object p?
If you would just get it into a single string (with something
like:

Given that "ResultSet" mention, I'd be tempted to suspect these are
being extracted from some sort of RDBM that has a misformed X(HT)ML
representation.
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