On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:46:18 +0100, J. Clifford Dyer
<j...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 23:41 +0100, Rhodri James wrote:
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:12:14 +0100, Anish Chapagain
<anishchapag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to extract wikipedia Infobox contents which is in format
> like given below, from the opened URL page in Python.
>
> {{ Infobox Software
> | name = Bash
[snip]
> | latest release date = {{release date|mf=yes|2009|02|20}}
> | programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
> | operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
> | platform = [[GNU]]
> | language = English, multilingual ([[gettext]])
> | status = Active
[snip some more]
> }} //upto this line
>
> I need to extract all data between {{ Infobox ...to }}
[snip still more]
You end up with 'infoboxes' containing a list of all the infoboxes
on the page, each held as a list of the lines of their content.
For safety's sake you really should be using regular expressions
rather than 'startswith', but I leave that as an exercise for the
reader :-)
I agree that startswith isn't the right option, but for matching two
constant characters, I don't think re is necessary. I'd just do:
if '}}' in line:
pass
Then, as the saying goes, you only have one problem.
That would be the problem of matching lines like:
| latest release date = {{release date|mf=yes|2009|02|20}}
would it? :-)
A quick bit of timing suggests that:
if line.lstrip().startswith("}}"):
pass
is what we actually want.
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