Parsing Web Data in Python (Using Strings)

Question

I have a Python list from some web scraping that looks like the list below.

['\n           Elementary School: HUTCHINSON \n           High School: RIVERSIDE \n           Middle School: ROLLING RIDGE \n  ... ]

My goal is to retrieve the high school name of each listing I pull. For this particular listing, the high school is RIVERSIDE. What is the best way to extract this information?

My goal is to have a variable hs = "RIVERSIDE" for this particular listing.

Side note: this data is from housing listings on realtor.com

MrNobody33 · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-23 18:05:25Z

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You can try this:

ls=['\n           Elementary School: HUTCHINSON \n           High School: RIVERSIDE \n           Middle School: ROLLING RIDGE \n ']


hs=[i.strip().split(':')[1].replace('\n','') for i in ls[0].split('\n') if 'High School' in i][0]
print('hs =',hs)

Output:

hs =  RIVERSIDE

Or you can use re:

import re 
highschoolregex = re.compile(r'(High School)[:] (\w.+)') 
hs = highschoolregex.search(ls[0]).group(2)
print('hs =',hs)

Output:

hs =  RIVERSIDE

edited Jun 23, 2020 at 18:05

answered Jun 23, 2020 at 17:51

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