how to store soucre code from urlopen?

[moroccanplaya]

hi i can print out the website source code but i cant store whats been read in a variable as a string so is there away of doing this?

 
with urllib.request.urlopen(path) as url:
    sourcecode = url.read()
    print(sourcecode)#prints source code
    sourcecode = storecode #i cant do this???
 
 
 
 
 
 

[bvdet]

From your code, it appears you are using Python 3.x. Since I don't have Python 3 installed, I have no way of testing your code. Could your problem have something to do with the the context in which your code is executed? Is it possible the file object __exit__() method is garbage collecting local variable sourcecode? Just guessing.

Try executing s = urllib.request.urlopen(path).read() without using the with statement

[moroccanplaya]

Hi thanks for your help i tried it without the with statement it is still not working i only seem able to print out from whats being read that's all

my code is fairly simple it only asks the user for the url then reads in the source code from the url entered after that i want to store whats being read into a string variable for further manipulation but i haven not figured a way to do that.

[bvdet]

Acccording to Python docs, urllib.request.urlopen(url[, data][, timeout]) returns a file like object with 2 additional methods defined. As you know, a file object's read method returns the file contents as a string. I keep thinking you may be defining a local variable which is unavailable in the global scope. Try creating a global variable with the global statement.

[moroccanplaya]

sorry did you mean, setting s as a global variable?

def s():
  global s
  s = urllib.request.urlopen(path).read()
 

[dwblas]

You have the variables reversed.

with urllib.request.urlopen(path) as url:
     sourcecode = url.read()
     print(sourcecode)#prints source code
     ##sourcecode = storecode #i cant do this?
     storecode = sourcecode 

[moroccanplaya]

i have found the problem, thanks for your help, the problem is that whats been read from url.read is not stored as a string once i converted the variable to a string i could manipulate the string thanks again i appreciate your help.