[Tutor] Unable to retreive the stock code

[Cameron Simpson]

On 16Nov2015 15:41, Crusier <crusier at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am currently trying to download the stock code. I am using Python
>3.4 and the code is as follows:
[...]
>    for link in soup.find_all("a"):
>        stock_code = re.search('/d/d/d/d/d', "00001" )
>        print(stock_code, '', link.text)
[...]
>I am trying to retrieve the stock code from here:
><td class="verd_black12" width="18%">00001</td>
>or from a href.

Well it looks like you have all the needed libraries. You're doing a few things 
wrong above. Firstly, to match a digit you need "\d", not "/d". Secondly, your 
use of "re.search" searches the literal string "00001" instead of, presumably, 
the value of link.text. Thirdly, the return from "re.search" is not a stock 
code but a "match object"; I would not call it "stock_code" but 
"stock_code_match".  That will contain a reference to the stock code; since 
your regexp matches the stock code then stock_code_match.group(0) will return 
the actual matched text, the stock code.

Fix that stuff and see where you are.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>