simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

[Alexnb]

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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[Grzegorz Staniak]

Re: simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

On 2008-08-20, Alexnb <alexnbryan@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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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

Alexnb wrote:

>
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.

Diez