On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 4:26:24 PM UTC-6, Stanley Denman wrote:
> I am trying to parse a Python nested list that is the result of the
> getOutlines() function of module PyPFD2 using pyparsing module. This is the
> result I get. what in the world are 'expandtabs' and why is that making a
> difference to my parse attempt?
>
> Python Code
> 7
> import PPDF2,pyparsing
> from pyparsing import Word, alphas, nums
> pdfFileObj=open('x.pdf','rb')
> pdfReader=PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
> List=pdfReader.getOutlines()
> myparser = Word( alphas ) + Word(nums, exact=2) +"of" + Word(nums, exact=2)
> myparser.parseString(List)
>
> This is the error I get:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#23>", line 1, in <module>
> myparser.parseString(List)
> File "C:\python\lib\site-packages\pyparsing.py", line 1620, in parseString
> instring = instring.expandtabs()
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'expandtabs'
>
> Thanks so much, not getting any helpful responses from
> https://python-forum.io.
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