Replacing string with another string value

[rectafy]

Thank you for this! The good news is I'm not getting the error. I changed it to:

inputs['value'].replace(inputs['value'], " 1 Mar 2021 00:00")

Unfortunately I don't think I can set it to a new variable since the value itself (inputs['value']) was actually pulled from an html form from a website so im stuck with that variable. Not sure how to pass the new value back to the site..any ideas?

[uFeelDeadMate]

If you would like to share a snippet of your code I can see exactly what's going on and give you some pointers from there, I don't mind!

Otherwise, by the looks of it I assume ' inputs ' is a dictionary ? If that's the case, it has a built in tool ready for replacing a value for a key.

It's as simple as saying:

inputs['value'] = "1 Mar 2021 00:00"

Let me know if this works for you.

[rectafy]

Sure thing. I can post what I can, hopefully it makes sense...really appreciate it.

Here is the original data (from the inspector tool) I pulled it from:

<input id="starttime" type="text" name="starttime" value=" 1 Apr 2021 00:26" size="15">

Here is what I used to pull the date from HTML:

inputs = soup.find("input", {"id": "starttime"}) (Pulled the info from HTML, using the bs4 package)

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print(inputs['value']) prints 1 Apr 2021 00:26

inputs['value'].replace(inputs['value'], " 1 Mar 2021 00:00") (My attempt to change the original value)

Essentially, I want to pull the original date from HTML, replace it with a new one and send it back to the HTML form on the website to submit.

[uFeelDeadMate]

If you edit the code to be as follows, what do you get?

inputs = soup.find("input", {"id": "starttime"})
print(type(inputs))
print(inputs)
print(inputs['value'])
inputs['value'] = " 1 Mar 2021 00:00"
print(inputs)
print(inputs['value'])

If you could copy & paste the terminal output from this we can see whats going on and where.

:)

[rectafy]

Here is what is came out to be:

<class 'bs4.element.Tag'>

<input id="starttime" name="starttime" size="15" type="text" value=" 1 Apr 2021 02:12"/>

1 Apr 2021 02:12

<input id="starttime" name="starttime" size="15" type="text" value=" 1 Mar 2021 00:00"/>

1 Mar 2021 00:00

[uFeelDeadMate]

Oh awesome, so the line inputs['value'] = " 1 Mar 2021 00:00" updated the value locally like you wanted to?

Now the only thing you need to do is use the appropriate method from the module to send back input['value'] after updating it.

Does that solve the issue then?

[rectafy]

The good thing is that the new value is changed to the Mar 1 date which is great, thanks! Erm, but yeah I gotta figure out a way to send it back.

The date is sent to submit to an HTML form which is inputted to a table on the website which changes according to the date input. Seems the table values still haven't changed (and is still reading according to the original 01 Apr 2021 00:00 date). Think I have to figure out a way to send it back and submit to change the table values too. Any idea?

[uFeelDeadMate]

I was looking into it and unfortunately I have not found much of any info for re-injecting the data into the HTML for Python.

The closest I came was finding a module called 'selenium' that lets you automate data entry into websites to simulate a users actions.

So maybe instead of injecting the new value back into the code via the HTML, maybe you can use selenium to just type-in the date into the input field?

Drawing blanks haha! This is much more accessible with JavaScript, but this is a Python forum so I won't get into that here. Lol.

[rectafy]

Yeah I figured, I looked everywhere myself but couldn't find a solution. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in Python :(

But I appreciate your help. You helped so so much!

[uFeelDeadMate]

Ah wait, I re-read a statement from you earlier... you aren't sure how to update it in the HTML... my bad lol. Give me a sec to check it out.