[Tutor] Python Whois [was Re: Tutor Digest, Vol 134, Issue 86]

[Steven D'Aprano]

Hi Jon,

Before I answer your question, first some mailing list housekeeping. If 
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Now, back to your question:


On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 02:13:50PM -0400, Juanald Reagan wrote:

> Okay, so it doesn't look like that worked...here is the traceback. I don't
> understand the second part of your request.
> 
> Jons-desktop:whois-0.7 2 jon$ python pythonwhois.py
> 
> 8.8.8.8
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "pythonwhois.py", line 14, in <module>
> 
>     print results.asn_registry
> 
> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'asn_registry'

Try these three lines instead:

     print type(results)
     print results
     print results['asn_registry']


The first two lines are to find out what sort of object the IPWhois 
result is, and hopefully what its contents are. I *think* it will be a 
dict, in which case the last line may be the answer you are looking for: 
to extract the 'asn_registry' field from the dict, you will use

    results['asn_registry']

Assuming that works, does it answer your question? If not, can you 
explain what you want to do?



-- 
Steve