I'm trying to retrieve wikipedia pages' characters count, for articles in different languages. I'm using a dictionary with as key the name of the page and as value a dictionary with the language as key and the count as value.

The code is:

pages = ["L'arte della gioia", "Il nome della rosa"]
langs = ["it", "en"]
dicty = {}
dicto ={}
numz = 0
for x in langs:
    wikipedia.set_lang(x)
    for y in pages:
        pagelang = wikipedia.page(y)
        splittedpage = pagelang.content
        dicto[y] = dicty
        for char in splittedpage:
            numz  =1
            dicty[x] = numz

If I print dicto, I get

{"L'arte della gioia": {'it': 72226, 'en': 111647}, 'Il nome della rosa': {'it': 72226, 'en': 111647}}

The count should be different for the two pages.

CodePudding user response：

Please try this code. I didn't run it because I don't have the wikipedia module.

Notes:

1. Since your expected result is dict[page,dict[lan,cnt]], I think first iterate pages is more natural, then iterate languages. Maybe for performance reason you want first iterate languages, please comment.
2. Characters count of text can simply be len(text), why iterate and sum again?
3. Variable names. You will soon be lost in x y like variables.

pages = ["L'arte della gioia", "Il nome della rosa"]
langs = ["it", "en"]
dicto = {}
for page in pages:
    lang_cnt_dict = {}
    for lang in langs:
        wikipedia.set_lang(lang)
        page_lang = wikipedia.page(page)
        chars_cnt = len(pagelang.content)
        lang_cnt_dict[lan] = chars_cnt
    dicto[page] = lang_cnt_dict
print(dicto)

update

If you want iterate langs first

pages = ["L'arte della gioia", "Il nome della rosa"]
langs = ["it", "en"]
dicto = {}
for lang in langs:
    wikipedia.set_lang(lang)
    for page in pages:
        page_lang = wikipedia.page(page)
        chars_cnt = len(pagelang.content)
        if page in dicto:
            dicto[page][lang] = chars_cnt
        else:
            dicto[page] = {lang: chars_cnt}
print(dicto)