Question

This assignment should be written in PYTHON programming language

Please write python programs to answer the following questions. Everything should be dynamically scraped from the live websites using the Beautiful Soup interface.

Texas Dept of Criminal Justice (relevant url: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executions_by_year.html): Accept two integers as input. You can assume that these values represent a valid starting and ending year within the range of the years in the table. Process the html and find the total number of executions in Texas between the starting year and the ending year (inclusive of the start and end years).

Example:
Enter starting year: 1990
Enter ending year: 2000
Total executions: 206

Answer 1

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

page = requests.get('https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executions_by_year.html')


soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')
rows = soup.select('.overflow table tr')[1:-1]

executions = {}

for link in rows:
    x = link.find('th')
    y = link.findAll('td')[-2]
    executions[int(x.text)] = int(y.text)

#print(executions)

start = int(input('Enter starting year: '))
end = int(input('Enter ending year: '))
total = 0
for y in range(start, end + 1):
    if y in executions:
        total += executions[y]
print('Total executions:', total)

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