Viaducts.collect_codes¶

Viaducts.collect_codes(page_no, confirmation_required=True, verbose=False, raise_error=False)[source]¶

Collects data of railway viaducts for a specific page number from the source web page.

Parameters:

page_no (int | str) – The page number to collect data from; valid values are 1, 2, 3 and 4.
confirmation_required (bool) – Whether user confirmation is required; if confirmation_required=True (default), prompts the user for confirmation before proceeding with data collection.
verbose (bool | int) – Whether to print relevant information to the console; defaults to False.
raise_error (bool) – Whether to raise the provided exception; if raise_error=False (default), the error will be suppressed.

Returns:

A dictionary containing the data of railway viaducts for the specified page_no and the date of when the data was last updated.

Return type:

dict

Examples:

>>> from pyrcs.other_assets import Viaducts  # from pyrcs import Viaducts
>>> vdct = Viaducts()
>>> page_1_codes = vdct.collect_codes(page_no=1)
>>> type(page_1_codes)
dict
>>> list(page_1_codes.keys())
['Page 1 (A-C)', 'Last updated date']
>>> page_1_dat = page_1_codes['Page 1 (A-C)']
>>> type(page_1_dat)
pandas.core.frame.DataFrame
>>> page_1_dat.head()
            Name  ... Spans
0       7 Arches  ...     7
1        36 Arch  ...    36
2        42 Arch  ...
3           A698  ...     5
4  Abattoir Road  ...     8
[5 rows x 7 columns]