Getting text with accented characters using Python and Selenium
I made a scraping script with python and selenium. It scrapes data from a Spanish language website:
for i, line in enumerate(browser.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)):
tds = line.find_elements_by_tag_name('td') # takes <td> tags from line
print tds[0].text # FIRST PRINT
if len(tds)%2 == 0: # takes data from lines with even quantity of cells only
data.append([u"".join(tds[0].text), u"".join(tds[1].text), ])
print data # SECOND PRINT
The first print statement gives me a normal Spanish string. But the second print gives me a string like this: "Data de Distribuiu00e7u00e3o".
What's the reason for this?
python selenium screen-scraping latin
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
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I made a scraping script with python and selenium. It scrapes data from a Spanish language website:
for i, line in enumerate(browser.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)):
tds = line.find_elements_by_tag_name('td') # takes <td> tags from line
print tds[0].text # FIRST PRINT
if len(tds)%2 == 0: # takes data from lines with even quantity of cells only
data.append([u"".join(tds[0].text), u"".join(tds[1].text), ])
print data # SECOND PRINT
The first print statement gives me a normal Spanish string. But the second print gives me a string like this: "Data de Distribuiu00e7u00e3o".
What's the reason for this?
python selenium screen-scraping latin
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
could you show the original string, and the data in tds please?
– tglaria
Dec 2 '15 at 13:26
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I made a scraping script with python and selenium. It scrapes data from a Spanish language website:
for i, line in enumerate(browser.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)):
tds = line.find_elements_by_tag_name('td') # takes <td> tags from line
print tds[0].text # FIRST PRINT
if len(tds)%2 == 0: # takes data from lines with even quantity of cells only
data.append([u"".join(tds[0].text), u"".join(tds[1].text), ])
print data # SECOND PRINT
The first print statement gives me a normal Spanish string. But the second print gives me a string like this: "Data de Distribuiu00e7u00e3o".
What's the reason for this?
python selenium screen-scraping latin
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
I made a scraping script with python and selenium. It scrapes data from a Spanish language website:
for i, line in enumerate(browser.find_elements_by_xpath(xpath)):
tds = line.find_elements_by_tag_name('td') # takes <td> tags from line
print tds[0].text # FIRST PRINT
if len(tds)%2 == 0: # takes data from lines with even quantity of cells only
data.append([u"".join(tds[0].text), u"".join(tds[1].text), ])
print data # SECOND PRINT
The first print statement gives me a normal Spanish string. But the second print gives me a string like this: "Data de Distribuiu00e7u00e3o".
What's the reason for this?
python selenium screen-scraping latin
python selenium screen-scraping latin
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
edited Nov 13 '18 at 10:39
ukemi
2,4433524
2,4433524
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
asked Dec 2 '15 at 11:13
user1564009user1564009
459
459
could you show the original string, and the data in tds please?
– tglaria
Dec 2 '15 at 13:26
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could you show the original string, and the data in tds please?
– tglaria
Dec 2 '15 at 13:26
could you show the original string, and the data in tds please?
– tglaria
Dec 2 '15 at 13:26
could you show the original string, and the data in tds please?
– tglaria
Dec 2 '15 at 13:26
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You are mixing encodings:
u'' # unicode string
b'' # bytearray string
The text property of tds[0] is a bytearray string which is encoding agnostic, and you are operating in the second print with unicode string, thus mixing the encodings
answered Dec 2 '15 at 11:25
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You are mixing encodings:
u'' # unicode string
b'' # bytearray string
The text property of tds[0] is a bytearray string which is encoding agnostic, and you are operating in the second print with unicode string, thus mixing the encodings
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You are mixing encodings:
u'' # unicode string
b'' # bytearray string
The text property of tds[0] is a bytearray string which is encoding agnostic, and you are operating in the second print with unicode string, thus mixing the encodings
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You are mixing encodings:
u'' # unicode string
b'' # bytearray string
The text property of tds[0] is a bytearray string which is encoding agnostic, and you are operating in the second print with unicode string, thus mixing the encodings
answered Dec 2 '15 at 11:25
JosiJosi
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You are mixing encodings:
u'' # unicode string
b'' # bytearray string
The text property of tds[0] is a bytearray string which is encoding agnostic, and you are operating in the second print with unicode string, thus mixing the encodings
answered Dec 2 '15 at 11:25
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answered Dec 2 '15 at 11:25
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could you show the original string, and the data in tds please?
– tglaria
Dec 2 '15 at 13:26