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on the burden of canonicalizing
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standardizing the data but being
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flexible with the users it's arguably a
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better user experience if you just let
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me copy paste or type in what I want you
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clean it up you're the programmer not me
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lenss for a better experience perhaps
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well let me go ahead and do this with
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twitter. let me first go ahead and
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prompt the user here for a value for a
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variable that I'll call URL and just ask
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them to input the URL of their Twitter
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profile I'm going to go ahead and strip
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off any leading or trailing whites space
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just in case users accidentally hit the
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space bar that's like literally the
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least I can do quite easily but now
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let's go ahead and do this suppose that
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the users's address is the following let
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me print out what they type in and let
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me clear my screen and run python of
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twitter. I'm going to go ahead and type
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in for instance
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https
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twitter.com davidj ma which happens to
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be my own Twitter username for now we're
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just going to print it back onto the
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screen just to make sure I've not messed
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up yet okay so I've printed back out the
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exact same URL but the goal at hand is
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to extract the username only now let me
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just ask perhaps a straightforward
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question logically what do I need to do
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to get at the user's username well uh we
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just ignore what's before the username
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and then just extract the username
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perfect yeah I mean it is as simple as
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that if you know the usernames at the
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end well let's just somehow ignore
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everything to the beginning well what's
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it beginning well it's a URL so we're
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probably going to need to ignore an
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https a colon a twitter.com and a slash
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so we just want to throw all of that
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away why because if it's URL We Know by
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how Twitter works that the username
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comes at the end so let's use that very
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simple idea to get at the information we
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want well I'm going to try this a few
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different ways let me go back into my
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program here and instead of just
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printing it out which was just to see
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what's going on let me do this let me
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create a new variable called username
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and let me call url. replace it turns
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out that if URL is a string or a stir in
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Python it again comes with multiple
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methods like strip uh and split and
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others as well one of which is called
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replace and replace will do just that
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you pass it two arguments the first of
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which is what do you want to replace the
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second argument is what do you want to
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replace it with so if I want to get rid
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of as I've been proposed really just
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everything before the username that is
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the Twitter URL or the beginning thereof
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let's just say this go ahead and replace
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https
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twitter.com close quote that's what I
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want to replace and comma second
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argument what do you want to replace it
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with nothing so I'm literally going to
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pass in quote unquote to effectively do
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a find and replace that's what the
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replace method does just like you can do
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it in Microsoft Word or Google Docs this
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is the programmer's way of doing find
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and replace now let me go ahead and
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print out just the username so I'll use
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an F string like this I'll say username
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colon and then in curly braces username
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just to format it nicely all right let
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me go ahead and clear my screen and run
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python of twitter. py enter URL here we
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go
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https
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twitter.com SL davidj maen enter okay
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now we've made some progress done for
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the day right well what is suboptimal
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about this can anyone critique or find
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fault with my program it is working now
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but it's a little fragile I bet we could
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contrive some scenarios where I think it
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works but it doesn't well I have a few
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ideas actually well first of all uh if
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we if we don't specify https it will
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broken secondly if we have slash at the
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end it also will be broken if we if we
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have like question mark something after
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