TrackDiagrams.collect_catalogue
- TrackDiagrams.collect_catalogue(confirmation_required=True, verbose=False)[source]
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...