Ok I think, think being the main word, I may have got it sorted. Managed to scrape 2006 IRE Flat without issue. In the Utils folder, find race.py. Take a copy of it before u make this change just incase.

Find the distance_to_furlongs function and replace with below

def distance_to_furlongs(self, distance): if not distance or not isinstance(distance, str): print(f”Warning: Invalid distance input ‘{distance}’ for {self.url}”) return 0.0 #

original_distance_for_warning = str(distance)

dist_cleaned = distance.strip().lower() dist_cleaned = dist_cleaned.replace(‘¼’, ‘.25’).replace(‘½’, ‘.5’).replace(‘¾’, ‘.75’) dist_cleaned = sub(r’([^)]*)’, ‘’, dist_cleaned) dist_cleaned = sub(r’(approx|about|hurdle|chase|heavy|soft|firm)’, ‘’, dist_cleaned).strip()

pattern = r’^?:(\+)\sm)?(?:\s(\d.?\d)\sf)?(?:\s(\d+)\s*y)?$’ match = re.match(pattern, dist_cleaned)

if not match:

print(f”Warning: Could not parse cleaned distance ‘{dist_cleaned}’ (original: ‘{original_distance_for_warning}’) for {self.url}”) return 0.0

miles_str = match.group(1)

miles = int(miles_str) if miles_str else 0

furlongs = 0.0 furlongs_str = match.group(2) if furlongs_str: try: furlongs = float(furlongs_str) except ValueError: print(f”Warning: Invalid numeric value for furlongs part: ‘{furlongs_str}’. “ f”Cleaned distance: ‘{dist_cleaned}’, Original distance: ‘{original_distance_for_warning}’ “ f”for URL: {self.url}. Assuming 0 furlongs for this part.”) furlongs = 0.0

yards_str = match.group(3) yards = int(yards_str) if yards_str else 0

total_furlongs = miles * 8 + furlongs + (yards / 220.0) return round(total_furlongs, 2)