Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
Please consider this:
as you can see, I'm the author of the
Learn Python Series(as well as a Utopian mod & Advisor),therefore I think I'm in the position to properly judge the quality of this tutorial,
I've had quite some doubts if I would approve or rejct this tutorial, and as you can see, in the end I decided to approve it, but barely,
there are quite some things missing and other aspects that could be improved, such as:
your English spelling & grammar could use a few improvements;
the PyCharm Professional IDE is not open source (minor issue). You could have easily discussed in a few steps PyCharm Community Edition (which is),
you forgot to explain to the user they first need to (
pip) install both requests and beautifulsoup4 before they are able to import it: you are (probably) not using a virtual environment, meaning you've installed them at an earlier date. But users who have not installed them, or are using a new virtual environment per project, would get errors and can therefore not complete the tutorial;you haven't explained what
requestsis (= a simple HTTP library for Python), or whatbeautifulsoup4is (an HTML parsing library),your tutorial title is mis-leading somewhat: you are explaining - in essence - how to use requests to fetch a web page, and beautifulsoup4 to parse the html using "jQuery-like" DOM-selectors, which can be used on any html web page, and thus has nothing to do with "analyzing steemit". Further, you're not analyzing anything, only parsing some DOM-elements and assigning them to variables;
you are not properly explaining any of the bs4 methods (why use
find_all('a')for example? I know, but others don't. Are there other methods they can use?)you are only printing the data you've fetched from the webpage. The minimum you could have done is wrap a more modular function around some bs4 code and return useful data from it.
Anyway, you are hereby strongly encouraged to seriously upgrade the quality of your next Python tutorials.
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Thanks for your encouragement. We will try to explain the issues according to yout comments in the next tutorial. Also we are very happy and appreciate to see such a serious comments from you. We are newbie among you but we will improve ourselves and our posts, be sure.