Viaducts¶

class pyrcs.other_assets.Viaducts(data_dir=None, update=False, verbose=True)[source]¶

A class for collecting codes of railway viaducts.

Parameters:

data_dir (str | None) – The name of the directory for storing the data; defaults to None.
update (bool) – Whether to check for updates to the catalogue; defaults to False.
verbose (bool | int) – Whether to print relevant information to the console; defaults to True.

Variables:

catalogue (dict) – The catalogue of the data.
last_updated_date (str) – The date when the data was last updated.
data_dir (str) – The path to the directory containing the data.
current_data_dir (str) – The path to the current data directory.

Examples:

>>> from pyrcs.other_assets import Viaducts  # from pyrcs import Viaducts
>>> vdct = Viaducts()
>>> vdct.NAME
'Railway viaducts'
>>> vdct.URL
'http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/viaducts/viaducts0.shtm'

Attributes

`KEY`	The key for accessing the data.
`KEY_TO_LAST_UPDATED_DATE`	The key used to reference the last updated date in the data.
`NAME`	The name of the data.
`URL`	The URL of the main web page for the data.

Methods

`collect_codes`(page_no[, ...])	Collects data of railway viaducts for a specific page number from the source web page.
`fetch_codes`([page_no, update, dump_dir, verbose])	Fetches data of railway viaducts.