On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:34 AM, angela ebirim <cebi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > baseUrl = " > http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/services/mnis/members/query"; > search_criteria = " > > House=Commons" > outputs = " > > Constituencies" > > headers = {"content-type": "application/json"} > > > *""" so the resulting url: resultUrl should be * > http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/services/ > mnis/members/query/House=Commons/Constituencies > *"""* > > > *result > > = search_criteria + outputs* > * > > resultUrl = > > urljoin(baseUrl + result)* > > Your strings aren't what you think they are. When you run result = search_criteria + outputs That concatenates the two string together, so result is now " House=Commons Constituencies" The same thing happens again on the next line. You call urljoin(baseUrl + result), but that isn't doing quite what you think either. Since you tell python to add those two stings together, it does that first, then passes the result to urljoin. In both cases, you're losing the '/' that ought to separate the pieces of your URL. Try this instead: result = search_criteria + "/" + outputs resultUrl = urljoin(baseUrl, result) That should get you what you're looking for. As a more general piece of debugging advice, when things start to go wrong it's usually worth printing out the variables you're working with. That way you can make sure that they match your expectations. If you'd done that in this case, you would have immediately seen that your resultUrl was being built incorrectly. Also, it was super helpful to have comments saying what your expected results were. That makes it easier for someone else to come along and immediately understand what you're trying to accomplish, and see where you might have gone wrong. -- Jerry _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
