I am trying to performance a regex on a "string" of text that python isinstance
is telling me is a dictionary. When I run the code I get the following error:
{'/Title': '1F: Progress Notes Src.: MILANI, JOHN C Tmt. Dt.: 05/12/2014 -
05/28/2014 (9 pages)', '/Page': IndirectObject(465, 0), '/Type': '/FitB'}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\stand\Desktop\PythonSublimeText.py", line 9, in <module>
x=MyRegex.findall(MyDict)
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
Here is the "string" of code I am working with:
{'/Title': '1F: Progress Notes Src.: MILANI, JOHN C Tmt. Dt.: 05/12/2014 -
05/28/2014 (9 pages)', '/Page': IndirectObject(465, 0), '/Type': '/FitB'}
I want to grab the name "MILANI, JOHN C" and the last date "-mm/dd/yyyy" as a
pair such that if I have X numbers of string like the above I will end out
with N pairs of values (name and date)/ Here is my code:
import PyPDF2,re
pdfFileObj=open('x.pdf','rb')
pdfReader=PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
Result=pdfReader.getOutlines()
MyDict=(Result[-1][0])
print(MyDict)
print(isinstance(MyDict,dict))
MyRegex=re.compile(r"MILANI,")
x=MyRegex.findall(MyDict)
print(x)
Thanks in advance for any help.
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