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I have tried the following code below . It shows no error and no result , double checked , cross checked from YouTube's video but he gets result not me . Any changes i can do to clear the problem , please answer . thankyou.

What I have tried:

import bs4 as bs
import pickle
import requests

def save_sp500_tickers():
    resp = requests.get( 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies' )
    soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(resp . text, "lxml")
    table = soup.find('table' , {'class' : 'wikitable sortable'})
    tickers  =  []
    for row in table.findAll('tr') [1:]:
        ticker = row.findAll('td') [0] . text
        tickers . append(ticker)

        with open("sp500tickers.pickle" , "wb")  as  f:
            pickle . dump(tickers, f)

            print(tickers)

            return tickers
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Updated 27-May-20 20:30pm

Compiling does not mean your code is right! :laugh:
Think of the development process as writing an email: compiling successfully means that you wrote the email in the right language - English, rather than German for example - not that the email contained the message you wanted to send.

So now you enter the second stage of development (in reality it's the fourth or fifth, but you'll come to the earlier stages later): Testing and Debugging.

Start by looking at what it does do, and how that differs from what you wanted. This is important, because it give you information as to why it's doing it. For example, if a program is intended to let the user enter a number and it doubles it and prints the answer, then if the input / output was like this:
Input   Expected output    Actual output
  1            2                 1
  2            4                 4
  3            6                 9
  4            8                16
Then it's fairly obvious that the problem is with the bit which doubles it - it's not adding itself to itself, or multiplying it by 2, it's multiplying it by itself and returning the square of the input.
So with that, you can look at the code and it's obvious that it's somewhere here:
C#
int Double(int value)
   {
   return value * value;
   }

Once you have an idea what might be going wrong, start using the debugger to find out why. Put a breakpoint on the first line of the method, and run your app. When it reaches the breakpoint, the debugger will stop, and hand control over to you. You can now run your code line-by-line (called "single stepping") and look at (or even change) variable contents as necessary (heck, you can even change the code and try again if you need to).
Think about what each line in the code should do before you execute it, and compare that to what it actually did when you use the "Step over" button to execute each line in turn. Did it do what you expect? If so, move on to the next line.
If not, why not? How does it differ?
Hopefully, that should help you locate which part of that code has a problem, and what the problem is.
This is a skill, and it's one which is well worth developing as it helps you in the real world as well as in development. And like all skills, it only improves by use!
 
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PythonPreran 29-May-20 1:40am    
Could have been, better if u had told what's the problem? But Nice Theory thankyou very much
OriginalGriff 29-May-20 3:36am    
NO, it wouldn't, because I'm trying to give you the method to solve it yourself, now, and in the future. If you learn the skill of debugging, you can solve this problem and future problems (both computing and real world) quickly and easily. My giving you the solution teaches you nothing, so next time your code doesn't work - and it will be the next time you write code, it always is in the beginning - you have to tools to fix it yourself instead of waiting for others to do it for you. And the further you get into your course, the more complicated the problems get, and the more complicated - and error prone - that makes your code.
Think about it: you have waited a day and got no further yet - if you knew how to debug you could have solved it yourself a long time ago ...

Sometimes, the "quickest way" is the "worst way" - and very often the longest way in the long run. What are you going to do when it comes to exam time and you have no access to the internet for example?
PythonPreran 29-May-20 3:39am    
i am learning it by my own not for exams lol, i am still 10th grade and i am going further no stoping, keep learning ...
OriginalGriff 29-May-20 3:42am    
Even more reason to learn to fix it yourself - it's a vital skill that is a load easier to learn on small apps, but can be applied just as well to 100,000 lines-of-code apps.

Seriously, give it a try - it's actually fun (and probably where you will spend most of your coding life).
PythonPreran 29-May-20 3:44am    
ok .....
Check indentation, in Python, it is part of the program structure.

Code found on internet: Python Programming Tutorials[^]
Python
import bs4 as bs
import pickle
import requests

def save_sp500_tickers():
    resp = requests.get('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies')
    soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(resp.text, 'lxml')
    table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'wikitable sortable'})
    tickers = []
    for row in table.findAll('tr')[1:]:
        ticker = row.findAll('td')[0].text
        tickers.append(ticker)
        
    with open("sp500tickers.pickle","wb") as f:
        pickle.dump(tickers,f)
        
    return tickers

save_sp500_tickers()
 
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PythonPreran 29-May-20 1:40am    
STILL NOT WORKING , thanks for ur answer ......
Patrice T 29-May-20 2:20am    
Show your actual code.
Use Improve question to update your question.
PythonPreran 29-May-20 3:39am    
this is my actual code
Patrice T 29-May-20 4:02am    
Show actual code that is not working.
PythonPreran 31-May-20 11:14am    
This is the code thats not working

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