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can't assign to operator - Calli - Apr-13-2020
I am trying to scrap this jokes from the website but i get the assignment operator error
from urllib.requests import urlopen as uReq
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
quotes_page = 'http://www.laughfactory.com/jokes/yo-momma-jokes'
uClient = uReq(quotes_page)
page_html = uClient.read()
uClient.close()
page_soup = soup(page_html, "html.parser")
quotes = page_soup.findAll("div",{"class":"jokes"})
for quote in quotes:
fav_quote = quote.findAll("div",{"class":"joke-msg"})
joke-msg = fav_quote[0].text.stip()
fav_authors = quote.findAll("div",{"class":"joke-text"})
joke-text = fav_authors[0].text.strip()
print (joke-msg)
print (joke-text)Error messsage File "yomama.py", line 17
joke-msg = fav_quote[0].text.stip()
^
SyntaxError: can't assign to operator
RE: can't assign to operator - buran - Apr-13-2020
please, post the full traceback you get in error tgs
RE: can't assign to operator - micseydel - Apr-14-2020
Variables can't have a dash in them. You can use underscores instead though.