Regex on a Dictionary
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 08:53:04 EST 2018
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?
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
More information about the Python-list
mailing list