I'm relatively new, and I'm just at a loss as to where to start. I don't expect detailed step-by-step responses (though, of course, those are more than welcome), but any nudges in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
I want to use the Gutenberg python library to select a text based on a user's input.
Right now I have the code:
from gutenberg.acquire import load_etext
from gutenberg.cleanup import strip_headers
text = strip_headers(load_etext(11)).strip()
where the number represents the text (in this case 11 = Alice in Wonderland).
Then I have a bunch of code about what to do with the text, but I don't think that's relevant here. (If it is let me know and I can add it).
Basically, instead of just selecting a text, I want to let the user do that. I want to ask the user for their choice of author, and if Project Gutenberg (PG) has pieces by that author, have them then select from the list of book titles (if PG doesn't have anything by that author, return some response along the lines of "sorry, don't have anything by $author_name, pick someone else." And then once the user has decided on a book, have the number corresponding to that book be entered into the code.
I just have no idea where to start in this process. I know how to handle user input, but I don't know how to take that input and search for something online using it.
Ideally, I'd be able to handle things like spelling mistakes too, but that may be down the line.
I really appreciate any help anyone has the time to give. Thanks!
The gutenberg module includes facilities for searching for a text by metadata, such as author. The example from the docs is:
from gutenberg.query import get_etexts
from gutenberg.query import get_metadata
print(get_metadata('title', 2701)) # prints frozenset([u'Moby Dick; Or, The Whale'])
print(get_metadata('author', 2701)) # prints frozenset([u'Melville, Hermann'])
print(get_etexts('title', 'Moby Dick; Or, The Whale')) # prints frozenset([2701, ...])
print(get_etexts('author', 'Melville, Hermann')) # prints frozenset([2701, ...])
It sounds as if you already know how to read a value from the user into a variable, and replacing the literal author in the above would be as simple as doing something like:
author_name = my_get_input_from_user_function()
texts = get_etexts('author', author_name)
Note the following note from the same section:
Before you use one of the gutenberg.query functions you must populate the local metadata cache. This one-off process will take quite a while to complete (18 hours on my machine) but once it is done, any subsequent calls to get_etexts or get_metadata will be very fast. If you fail to populate the cache, the calls will raise an exception.
With that in mind, I haven't tried the code I've presented in this answer because I'm still waiting for my local cache to populate.
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*I'm a newbie to python, I'm currently trying to create some random programs. I came accross this challenge. Would love to see how it can be solved, unfortunately I couldn't make this program.
I understand that we should use the random module and also the file handling functions in python.
If any detail is unclear I can re explain it
Write a program, which will help the user to generate exam tickets.
there are 2 files given . 1) with the exercises(exercises.txt):
it contains 30 exercises, each are already written on a new line.
2) we are given the students.txt file. Each line has a full name of a student. The program should allow the user to input the number of exercises which should be generated for the student. The new created ticket should have the students name with .txt file extension. The number must not exceed 30 exercises, if it does we should give them a new try to input the correct number. The exercises should be shuffled(randomized) .
import random
def logic():
number_input = int(input('sheiyvanet cifri'))
students_file = open('students.txt', 'r', encoding='utf8')
exercises_file = open('exercises.txt', 'r', encoding='utf8')
new_ticket_file = open('newTicket.txt', 'w')
while True:
if(number_input < 30):
new_ticket_file.write(str(random.shuffle(exercises_file.readlines())))
new_ticket_file.close()
break
else :
continue
logic()
Please do not simply provide a question and ask for it to be solved. Instead, show your current work and specify what is wrong with it.
Show examples of the text files, as in a few lines from each so that all viewers can properly understand it.
A good starting step is to write a piece of code that does only one thing. Eg:
Input a number.
The number must not exceed 30 exercises, if it does we should give them a new try to input the correct number.
Then write one that achieves a different part of your question. Try connecting these pieces. If it blows up or you really can't work it out, post a new question with the stuff you made and ask for help.
So hey. My previous question was not well received so I'll try to do better this time.
One of my help commands for the bot sends them a list of commands that they can do. Here's the code for the specific part of the problem:
def help_command(update, context):
update.message.reply_text("What do you need my help in?")
update.message.reply_text("/commandhelp - Know my commands")
update.message.reply_text("/helpmegetapartner - Get advice on getting a partner")
dp.add_handler(CommandHandler("jhelp", help_command))
Now, I will with time add more commands, which may not fall under the given list. But there's no way (that I know of) to send the same message but in one single one, along with line breaks. This method will bombard them with messages and make them hate me. Please help!
You can use triple quotes like that :
help_command_text = """What do you need my help in?
/commandhelp - Know my commands
/helpmegetapartner - Get advice on getting a partner
/anothercommand ...
"""
And then
update.message.reply_text(help_command_text)
I am completely new to this module and Python in general, yet wanted to start some sort of a fun project in my spare time.
I have a specific question concerning the GooglePlaces module for Python - how do I retrieve the reviews of a place by only knowing its Place ID.
So far I have done...
from googleplaces import GooglePlaces, types, lang
google_places = GooglePlaces('API KEY')
query_result = google_places.get_place(place_id="ChIJB8wSOI11nkcRI3C2IODoBU0")
print(query_result) #<Place name="Starbucks", lat=48.14308250000001, lng=11.5782337>
print(query_result.get_details()) # Prints None
print(query_result.rating) # Prints the rating of 4.3
I am completely lost here, because I cannot get access to the object's details. Maybe I am missing something, yet would be very thankful for any guidance through my issue.
If you are completly lost just read the docs :)
Example from https://github.com/slimkrazy/python-google-places:
for place in query_result.places:
# Returned places from a query are place summaries.
# The following method has to make a further API call.
place.get_details()
# Referencing any of the attributes below, prior to making a call to
# get_details() will raise a googleplaces.GooglePlacesAttributeError.
print place.details # A dict matching the JSON response from Google.
See the Problem with your code now?
print(query_result.get_details()) # Prints None
should be
query_result.get_details() # Fetch details
print(query_result.details) # Prints details dict
Regarding the results, the Google Docs states:
reviews[] a JSON array of up to five reviews. If a language parameter
was specified in the Place Details request, the Places Service will
bias the results to prefer reviews written in that language. Each
review consists of several components:
I have an application in which the main strings are in English and then various translations are made in various .po/.mo files, as usual (using Flask and Flask-Babel). Is it possible to get a list of all the English strings somewhere within my Python code? Specifically, I'd like to have an admin interface on the website which lets someone log in and choose an arbitrary phrase to be used in a certain place without having to poke at actual Python code or .po/.mo files. This phrase might change over time but needs to be translated, so it needs to be something Babel knows about.
I do have access to the actual .pot file, so I could just parse that, but I was hoping for a cleaner method if possible.
You can use polib for this.
This section of the documentation shows examples of how to iterate over the contents of a .po file. Here is one taken from that page:
import polib
po = polib.pofile('path/to/catalog.po')
for entry in po:
print entry.msgid, entry.msgstr
If you alredy use babel you can get all items from po file:
from babel.messages.pofile import read_po
catalog = read_po(open(full_file_name))
for message in catalog:
print message.id, message.string
See http://babel.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/babel/messages/pofile.py.
You alredy can try get items from mo file:
from babel.messages.mofile import read_mo
catalog = read_po(open(full_file_name))
for message in catalog:
print message.id, message.string
But when I try use it last time it's not was availible. See http://babel.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/babel/messages/mofile.py.
You can use polib as #Miguel wrote.
I'm trying to run some queries against Pubmed's Eutils service. If I run them on the website I get a certain number of records returned, in this case 13126 (link to pubmed).
A while ago I bodged together a python script to build a query to do much the same thing, and the resultant url returns the same number of hits (link to Eutils result).
Of course, not having any formal programming background, it was all a bit cludgy, so I'm trying to do the same thing using Biopython. I think the following code should do the same thing, but it returns a greater number of hits, 23303.
from Bio import Entrez
Entrez.email = "A.N.Other#example.com"
handle = Entrez.esearch(db="pubmed", term="stem+cell[All Fields]",datetype="pdat", mindate="2012", maxdate="2012")
record = Entrez.read(handle)
print(record["Count"])
I'm fairly sure it's just down to some subtlety in how the url is being generated, but I can't work out how to see what url is being generated by Biopython. Can anyone give me some pointers?
Thanks!
EDIT:
It's something to do with how the url is being generated, as I can get back the original number of hits by modifying the code to include double quotes around the search term, thus:
handle = Entrez.esearch(db='pubmed', term='"stem+cell"[ALL]', datetype='pdat', mindate='2012', maxdate='2012')
I'm still interested in knowing what url is being generated by Biopython as it'll help me work out how i have to structure the search term for when i want to do more complicated searches.
handle = Entrez.esearch(db="pubmed", term="stem+cell[All Fields]",datetype="pdat", mindate="2012", maxdate="2012")
print(handle.url)
You've solved this already (Entrez likes explicit double quoting round combined search terms), but currently the URL generated is not exposed via the API. The simplest trick would be to edit the Bio/Entrez/__init__.py file to add a print statement inside the _open function.
Update: Recent versions of Biopython now save the URL as an attribute of the returned handle, i.e. in this example try doing print(handle.url)