TrackDiagrams.collect_catalogue

TrackDiagrams.collect_catalogue(confirmation_required=True, verbose=False)

Collect catalogue of sample railway track diagrams from source web page.

Parameters:

confirmation_required (bool) – whether to confirm before proceeding, defaults to True
verbose (bool or int) – whether to print relevant information in console, defaults to False

Returns:

catalogue of railway track diagrams and date of when the catalogue was last updated

Return type:

dict or None

Examples:

>>> from pyrcs.line_data import TrackDiagrams  # from pyrcs import TrackDiagrams

>>> td = TrackDiagrams()

>>> track_diagrams_catalog = td.collect_catalogue()
To collect the catalogue of track diagrams
? [No]|Yes: yes
>>> type(track_diagrams_catalog)
dict
>>> list(track_diagrams_catalog.keys())
['Track diagrams', 'Last updated date']

>>> td_dat = track_diagrams_catalog['Track diagrams']
>>> type(td_dat)
dict
>>> list(td_dat.keys())
['Main line diagrams', 'Tram systems', 'London Underground', 'Miscellaneous']

>>> main_line_diagrams = td_dat['Main line diagrams']
>>> type(main_line_diagrams)
tuple
>>> type(main_line_diagrams[1])
pandas.core.frame.DataFrame
>>> main_line_diagrams[1].head()
                             Description                                         FileURL
0  South Central area (1985) 10.4Mb file  http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/line/track/d...
1   South Eastern area (1976) 5.4Mb file  http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/line/track/d...