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Convert Image to ASCII Art in Python
Convert any image to ASCII art by resizing, converting to grayscale, and mapping pixel brightness to characters using Pillow.
from PIL import Image
import sys
ASCII_CHARS = "@%#*+=-:. "
def resize_image(image, new_width=100):
"""Resize image maintaining aspect ratio."""
width, height = image.size
ratio = height / width
new_height = int(new_width * ratio * 0.55) # 0.55 adjusts for font aspect ratio
return image.resize((…How to Scrape Headlines from a News Website Using Beautiful Soup in Python
Scrape headline text from a news website using requests and Beautiful Soup with a CSS selector.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def scrape_headlines(url: str, selector: str) -> list:
"""
Scrape headlines from a news website using Beautiful Soup.
Args:
url: The URL of the news website.
selector: CSS selector for headline elements.
Returns:
List of h…Scrape HTML Tables and Convert Them to CSV Using Beautiful Soup in Python
Scrape a Wikipedia table with Beautiful Soup and write the data to a CSV file using the csv module.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv
url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)"
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
tables = soup.find_all('table', {'class': 'wikitable'})
if tables:
target_table = tables[2]
rows =…Browse by section
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