Okay, I have used BeautifulSoup a lot lately, but I am wondering, how do you
open a local html file?
Usually I do something like this for a url
soup = BeautifulSoup(u rllib.urlopen(' http://www.website.com ')
but the file extension doesn't work. So how do I open one?
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On 2008-08-20, Alexnb <al********@gma il.comwroted:
Okay, I have used BeautifulSoup a lot lately, but I am wondering, how do you
open a local html file?
Usually I do something like this for a url
soup = BeautifulSoup(u rllib.urlopen(' http://www.website.com ')
but the file extension doesn't work. So how do I open one?
Have you tried the local file URL, like "file:///home/user/file.html"?
GS
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Alexnb wrote:
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Okay, I have used BeautifulSoup a lot lately, but I am wondering, how do
you open a local html file?
Usually I do something like this for a url
soup = BeautifulSoup(u rllib.urlopen(' http://www.website.com ')
but the file extension doesn't work. So how do I open one?
The docs for urllib.urlopen clearly state that it returns a file-like
object. Which BS seems to grok.
So... how about passing another file-like object, like... *drumroll* - a
file?
soup = BeautifulSoup(o pen("myfile.htm l"))
Apart from the documented possibility to pass the html as string, which
means
soup = BeautifulSoup(o pen("myfile.htm l").read())
will work as well.
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