[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 160, Issue 26

[angela ebirim]

Hi,

I'm trying to dynamically build a url in python and have tried using:

#file.py

import json
import requests
from urllib.parse import urljoin

baseUrl = "
http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/services/mnis/members/query"
search_criteria = "House=Commons"
outputs = "Constituencies"

headers = {"content-type": "application/json"}


*""" so the resulting url: resultUrl should be *
http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/services/mnis/members/query/House=Commons/Constituencies
 *"""*

*result = search_criteria + outputs*
*resultUrl = urljoin(baseUrl + result)*

*"""However when I do the following:"""*
*r = requests.get(resultUrl, headers=headers)*
*r.encoding = "utf-8"*

*dump = r.text*
*members = json.loads(test[1:])*

*""" I get a JSONdecodeError which complains about the first character in
r.text being a <. The problem is if I use the url as is:"""*
*r = requests.get("*
http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/services/mnis/members/query/House=Commons/Constituencies",
headers)

""" it works I would like to give the user the option to switch between
House=Commons and House=Lords but can't yet because I haven't figured out
how to dynamically build url"""

What am I doing wrong?

Hoping that someone could help me.

Many thanks,



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