BeautifulSoup help !!

[Noah]

+1 at Steve....

On 6 Oct 2016 19:17, "Steve D'Aprano" <steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 02:30 am, alister wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:22:05 -0700, desolate.soul.me wrote:
> >
> >> So I've just started up with python and an assignment was given to me by
> >> a company as an recruitment task.
> >>
> > so by your own admission you have just started with python yet you
> > consider your self suitable for employment?
>
> What's your problem Alister? Do you think that junior devs aren't allowed
> to
> ask for help?
>
> Desolate.Soul.Me has either applied for a job, and their interview test
> is "do this task using Python", or he's been accepted in a new job, and the
> same applies.
>
> Whether it's a learning exercise, a test of skill + initiative, or actual
> work given to a junior developer, Desolate.Soul.Me is perfectly entitled
> to
> ask for help.
>
> This isn't some artificially constrained academic homework, with stupidly
> strict and hypocritical rules about so-called "plagiarism". This is the
> real world where you take all the help you can get and you shouldn't feel
> ashamed for asking for help. ESPECIALLY in the open source world, including
> Python, where one of the community values is to share expertise.
>
> My own employer has hired plenty of junior developers and given them
> relatively minor tasks to do as a learning exercise. We're not going to
> trust a junior developer with a critical piece of code, but we might say:
>
>     "Scrape this website. Use Python. Here's the Python For Beginners
>     book. Here's the Python documentation, and a few more forums where
>     you can ask for help. If you get stuck, and aren't getting useful
>     answers from the forums, you can ask Lisa. But not today, as she's
>     busy doing a critical release and can't be disturbed."
>
>
> P.S. Desolate.Soul.Me, you might be taken a bit more seriously if you
> give a
> name, or at least a moniker or nick-name which is easier for others to
> refer to you by. It doesn't have to be your birthname, or legal name. What
> do your friends and workmates call you?
>
>
> I don't know Beautiful Soup, so I'm afraid I can't help.
>
>
>
> --
> Steve
> “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
> enough, things got worse.
>
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