[FIXED] String gets split into a list of characters

Issue

Here is some HTML code i am trying to parse for dayid

<div tabindex="0" role="link" aria-label="January-11-2010" class="CALBOX CALW6 CALSELF " dayid="01/11/2010">
<span class="CALNUM">11</span> 
<span tabindex="0" class="CALTEXT">Foreclosure<br>
      <span class="CALMSG"><span class="CALACT">0</span> / 
      <span class="CALSCH">50</span> FC<br></span>
      <span class="CALTIME"> 09:00 AM ET</span>
</span>
</div>

Code below here collects the dayid tag with some other data.

attrs = []
for elm in soup():  
    for attr, value in elm.attrs.items():
       if attr == 'dayid':
           attrs += elm.attrs.values() 
print(attrs)

This code should extract the date and store them as a list in MonthDays.

for i in range(len(attrs)+1):
    if(i%5 == 0 and i > 0):
      print(attrs[i-1])
      MonthDays += attrs[i-1]

The print produces the correct data as a list

'01/11/2010'

The issue is that my data does not get stored like shown above. It gets stored as shown below here

['0','1','/','1','1','/','2','0','1','0']

I would like it to be stored in a dataframe just as is on the print

Solution

Maybe I did not get your problem, but using 'append' instead seems the logic way to add elements to list in Python, like:

for i in range(len(attrs)+1):
    if(i%5 == 0 and i > 0):
      print(attrs[i-1])
      MonthDays.append(attrs[i-1])

Answered By - A259