ELRMileages.collect_elr_by_initial
- ELRMileages.collect_elr_by_initial(initial, update=False, verbose=False)[source]
Collect Engineer’s Line References (ELRs) for a given initial letter from source web page.
- Parameters:
initial (str) – initial letter of an ELR, e.g.
'a'
,'z'
update (bool) – whether to do an update check (for the package data), defaults to
False
verbose (bool or int) – whether to print relevant information in console, defaults to
True
- Returns:
data of ELRs whose names start with the given initial letter and date of when the data was last updated
- Return type:
dict
Examples:
>>> from pyrcs.line_data import ELRMileages # from pyrcs import ELRMileages >>> em = ELRMileages() >>> elrs_a_codes = em.collect_elr_by_initial(initial='a') >>> type(elrs_a_codes) dict >>> list(elrs_a_codes.keys()) ['A', 'Last updated date'] >>> elrs_a_codes_dat = elrs_a_codes['A'] >>> type(elrs_a_codes_dat) pandas.core.frame.DataFrame >>> elrs_a_codes_dat.head() ELR ... Notes 0 AAL ... Now NAJ3 1 AAM ... Formerly AML 2 AAV ... 3 ABB ... Now AHB 4 ABB ... [5 rows x 5 columns] >>> elrs_q_codes = em.collect_elr_by_initial(initial='Q') >>> elrs_q_codes_dat = elrs_q_codes['Q'] >>> elrs_q_codes_dat.head() ELR ... Notes 0 QAB ... Duplicates ALB? 1 QBL ... 2 QDS ... 3 QLT ... 4 QLT1 ... [5 rows x 5 columns]