ELRMileages.collect_elr_by_initial¶
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ELRMileages.
collect_elr_by_initial
(initial, update=False, verbose=False)[source]¶ Collect Engineer’s Line References (ELRs) for the given initial letter from source web page.
- Parameters
initial (str) – initial letter of an ELR, e.g.
'a'
,'z'
update (bool) – whether to check on update and proceed to update the package data, defaults to
False
verbose (bool or int) – whether to print relevant information in console as the function runs, defaults to
False
- Returns
data of ELRs whose names start with the given
initial
and date of when the data was last updated- Return type
dict
Example:
>>> from pyrcs.line_data import ELRMileages >>> em = ELRMileages() >>> elrs_a = em.collect_elr_by_initial(initial='a') >>> type(elrs_a) <class 'dict'> >>> print(list(elrs_a.keys())) ['A', 'Last updated date']