Python - Adding Custom Values Into A Table From Web Scraping-CodePudding

I wrote a basic web scraper that returns values into nested lists like the one below:

results = [['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'c']]

But I want to add 2 custom values when they get pushed into the lists to look like something below:

results = [['customvalue1', 'customvalue2', 'a', 'b', 'c'], ['customvalue1', 'customvalue2', 'a', 'b', 'c'], ['customvalue1', 'customvalue2', 'a', 'b', 'c']]

Specifically, I want 'customvalue1' to be the current date in dd/mm/yyyy format, and 'customvalue2' to be a string that I define.

I tried to create the custom values within the for loop right before the append method, but haven' had luck so far.

CodePudding user response：

One of the ways to achieve it in the case of python.

import datetime

# Define customvalue2
customvalue2 = "mystring"

results = []

# Get current date
today = datetime.datetime.now()

# Loop over the data you want to add to the results list
for data in [['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'b', 'c']]:
  # Format current date as dd/mm/yyyy
  customvalue1 = today.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

  # Create a new list with the custom values and the data
  entry = [customvalue1, customvalue2]   data

  # Append the entry to the results list
  results.append(entry)