On 5 Jul 2012, at 7:47 AM, adohertyd wrote: > No that's not it either Jonathan. The problem I think is with the {'term' : > urllib.quote(term)}. I think that because 'term' is a dict type, the > urllib.quote is having issues with it.
That's what I mean. In the case of blekko and entireweb, you're using (implicitly) term = __process()['term'], but for Bing you're doing term = __process(). > > On Thursday, 5 July 2012 14:55:06 UTC+1, adohertyd wrote: > Me again! I don't know why I am getting this error. The process() function > takes in a value session.term, processes it, and returns it as a dict type so > that it can be mapped to URL's in the next function. The results() function > sends the variable 'term' to 3 different API URL's which all should return > some json results. The entireweb and blekko results come back fine if I leave > out the bing call; however, the bing results cause the error 'Dict object has > no attribute rstrip'. The problem has to be in the way I'm calling the Bing > API. Would really appreciate some guidance here. Thanks! This is my > default.py controller > > def index(): > form = FORM('', > INPUT(_name='query', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > INPUT(_type='submit')) > if form.process().accepted: > session.term=request.vars.query > redirect(URL('results')) > elif form.errors: > response.flash = 'form has errors' > else: > response.flash = 'please fill the form' > return dict(form=form) > > def __process(): > import urllib > term=session.term > #do some processing on term > return dict(term=term) > > def results(): > import urllib > import requests #This is an external library in the site-packages folder > > blekko = "http://www.blekko.com/?q=%(term)s+/json&auth=f4c8acf3" % > __process() > blekkoresults = urllib.urlopen(blekko).read() > > entireweb = > "http://www.entireweb.com/xmlquery?pz=<mykey>&ip=<myIP>&n=10&of=0&format=json&q=%(term)s" > %__process() > entresults = urllib.urlopen(entireweb).read() > > URL = > "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/Web?Query=%(term)s&$top=50&$format=json" > API_KEY= 'mykey' > term = __process() > r = requests.get(URL % {'term': urllib.quote(term)}, auth=('', API_KEY)) > bingresults = r.json['d']['results'] > > return blekkoresults, entresults, bingresults > > > > >