Python and Collective Intelligence KeyError: href

Question

I'm currently trying out some of the code from the book called, "Programming Collective Intelligence" and I ran into this error cause by pydelicious.py. Can anyone tell me how to debug such problems?

Python Code:

def initializeUserDict(tag, count = 5):
user_dict = {}

#get the top count' popular posts
for p1 in get_popular(tag = tag)[0:count]:
    #find all users who posted this
    for p2 in get_urlposts(p1['href']):
        user = p2['user']
        user_dict[user] = {}
return user_dict

Error:

>>>from deliciousrec import *
>>>delusers = initializeUserDict('programming')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "deliciousrec.py", line 9, in initializeUserDict
for p2 in get_urlposts(p1['href']): 
KeyError: 'href'

p1:

for p1 in get_popular(tag = 'python')[0:5]:
   print p1

{'extended': u'', 'description': u'20.19. SimpleHTTPServer \u2014 Simple HTTP request      handler \u2014 Python v2.7.7 documentation', 'tags': u'http', 'url': u'https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html', 'user': u'', 'dt': ''}
{'extended': u'', 'description': u'Must Have Python Packages | Algorithm.co.il', 'tags': u'python', 'url': u'http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/programming/must-have-python-packages/', 'user': u'', 'dt': ''}
{'extended': u'', 'description': u'Le blog de Thomas Blanchard: Configure pydistutils.cfg - example python distutils config file', 'tags': u'distutils', 'url': u'http://bouktin.blogspot.be/2012/04/configure-pydistutilscfg-python.html', 'user': u'', 'dt': ''}
{'extended': u'', 'description': u'3.2 Installation', 'tags': u'cheetah', 'url': u'http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html_multipage/gettingStarted.install.html', 'user': u'', 'dt': ''}
{'extended': u'', 'description': u"How can I represent an 'Enum' in Python? - Stack Overflow", 'tags': u'enum', 'url': u'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36932/how-can-i-represent-an-enum-in-python?rq=1', 'user': u'', 'dt': ''}

This means that `p1` dowsn't have a key `href`. Try do dump `p1` before looping over `get_urlposts(p1['href'])`. — , Jun 06 '14 at 06:50
`KeyError` means that the key (`href`) doesn't exist in the dictionary. — Christian Tapia, Jun 06 '14 at 06:50

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '14 at 09:05

Don't use "href" anymore, you need to change "href" by "url"

def initializeUserDict(tag, count=5):
    user_dict = {}
    # get the top count' popular posts
    for p1 in get_popular(tag=tag)[0:count]:
    # find all users who posted this
        for p2 in get_urlposts(p1['url']):  #<----------------HERE, I changed href by url
            user = p2['user']
            user_dict[user] = {}
    return user_dict

best regards

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '14 at 07:00

0

Your p1 from get_popular() does not seem to have a value associated with the key 'href'. You should test p1 for the key, or put the for p2 in get_urlposts(p1['href']) block in a try-catch.

answered Jun 06 '14 at 07:00

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