On 13/02/18 18:08, Stanley Denman wrote:
On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 9:41:14 AM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 13/02/18 13:11, Stanley Denman wrote:
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:
Please call it a dictionary as in the subject line, quite clearly it is
not a string in any way, shape or form.
{'/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.
Was the string methods solution that I gave a week or so ago so bad that
you still think that you need a regex to solve this?
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My Apology Mark. You took the time to give me the basis of a non-regex
solution and I had not taken the time to fully review your answer.Did not
understand it at first blush, but I think now I do.
Accepted :)
IIRC you might need a small tweak or two but certainly the foundations
were there.
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