what am i overlooking

[G+_Rud Dog]

what am i overlooking

 

>>> import bs4

>>> exampleFile = open('example.html')

>>> exampleSoup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(exampleFile.read())

>>> elems = exampleSoup.select('#author')

>>> type(elems)

>>> len(elems)

0

>>> type(elems[0])

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "", line 1, in

    type(elems[0])

IndexError: list index out of range

[G+_Jeff Brand]

When len(elems) is 0 that means there are no items in the list, not that there's one available at the 0 slot.

 

Just remember that the max index in an array will be len(array)-1.?

[G+_Rud Dog]

Thank everyone that me know the file being asked for information was either poorly created, lacking the author section, or was plain empty. That was the case script is correctly functioning.