Capture python output to variable

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I'm trying to automate pybaseball from player lookup to data extraction and can't seem to get past the first step of setting the player id as a variable.

I'm utilizing the following code to pull player id:

from pybaseball import playerid_lookup

data = playerid_lookup("kershaw", "clayton", fuzzy=True)

The output from the above lines are (exact copy/paste):

  name_last name_first  key_mlbam key_retro  key_bbref  key_fangraphs  mlb_played_first  mlb_played_last
0   kershaw    clayton     477132  kersc001  kershcl01           2036            2008.0           2022.0

Is there a method for setting the key_fangraphs number (2036) to a variable from this output?

GregoirePelegrin · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-23 16:44:37Z

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As the pybaseball.playerid_lookup.playerid_lookup() method returns a pandas.DataFrame, you should be able to use the pandas.DataFrame.get() method. Something like data.get("key_fangraphs", default=-1). It would return -1 if there was no "key_fangraphs" column.

answered Apr 23, 2022 at 16:44

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d3c0y Over a year ago

That's what I was looking for, thanks! For anyone else that finds this I utilized .to_string(index=False) to remove the row index and output just the data.

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