Parse text response from http request in Python

Question

I am trying to fetch data from an APU but as response I am getting the plain text. I want to read all text line by line.

This is the url variable: http://www.amfiindia.com/spages/NAVAll.txt?t=23052017073640

First snippet:

from pymongo import MongoClient
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
url = "https://www.amfiindia.com/spages/NAVAll.txt?t=23052017073640"
request = requests.get(url)
soup = bs(request.text,"lxml")
for line in soup:
    print line
    break

Result: It prints out the entire text

Second snippet:

request = requests.get(url)
for line in request.text():
    print line
    break

Result: It prints out 1 character

request = requests.get(url)
requestText = request.text()
allMf = requestText.splitlines()

Result: Exception: 'unicode' object is not callable

I have tried few more cases but not able to read text line by line.

Answer 1

request.text is a property and not a method, request.text returns a unicode string, request.text() throws the error 'unicode' object is not callable.

for line in request.text.splitlines():
    print line

Answer 2

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
url = "https://www.amfiindia.com/spages/NAVAll.txt?t=23052017073640"
request = requests.get(url)
soup = bs(request.text,"lxml")

# soup.text is to get the returned text
# split function, splits the entire text into different lines (using '\n') and stores in a list. You can define your own splitter.
# each line is stored as an element in the allLines list.
allLines = soup.text.split('\n') 

for line in allLines: # you iterate through the list, and print the single lines
    print(line)
    break # to just print the first line, to show this works