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python_version_history.ipynb

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   "source": [
    "# [Building a dataset of Python versions with regular expressions](https://www.dataschool.io/web-scraping-with-regex/)"
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   "source": [
    "[Python Documentation by Version](https://www.python.org/doc/versions/)"
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   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import requests"
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   "source": [
    "r = requests.get('https://www.python.org/doc/versions/')"
   ]
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      "<h1>Python Documentation by Version</h1>\n",
      "<p>Some previous versions of the documentation remain available\n",
      "online.  Use the list below to select a version to view.</p>\n",
      "<p>For unreleased (in development) documentation, see\n",
      "<a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"#in-development-versions\">In Development Versions</a>.</p>\n",
      "<ul class=\"simple\">\n",
      "<li><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https://docs.python.org/release/3.11.2/\">Python 3.11.2</a>, documentation released on 8 February 2023.</li>\n",
      "<li><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https://docs.python.org/release/3.11.1/\">Python 3.11.1</a>, documentation released on 6 December 2022.</li>\n",
      "<li><a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https://docs.python.org/release/3.11.0/\">Python 3.11.0</a>, documentation released on 24 October 2022.</li>\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "print(r.text[21646:22424])"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "aaddac57",
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   "source": [
    "## Extracting the dates"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "id": "bf247f46",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import re"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 5,
   "id": "a8d1b84f",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
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       "['8 February 2023', '6 December 2022', '24 October 2022']"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 5,
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   "source": [
    "dates = re.findall(r'\\d+ \\w+ \\d{4}', r.text)\n",
    "dates[0:3]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "1841112d",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Extracting the version numbers"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 6,
   "id": "324b89f3",
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   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "['3.11.2', '3.11.1', '3.11.0']"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 6,
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     "output_type": "execute_result"
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   "source": [
    "versions = re.findall(r'Python (\\d.+?)<', r.text)\n",
    "versions[0:3]"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "id": "4a25c479",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "## Creating the dataset"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 7,
   "id": "fe1231f4",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import pandas as pd"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 8,
   "id": "6e291c35",
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       "3    3.10.10   8 February 2023\n",
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    "pd.DataFrame(zip(versions, dates), columns=['Version', 'Date'])"
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