Re: simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:33:32 -0700 (PDT), Alexnb <alexnbryan@gma il.comwrote:

>
>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 ')
>

urllib.urlopen gives you a file-like object for a resource at an url.

file gives you a file-like object for a file on the local filesystem.

soup = BeautifulSoup(f ile('/the/name/of/the/file'))

Jean-Paul

[Aahz]

Re: simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

In article <mailman.1901.1 219243610.922.p ython-list@python.org >,
Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@divmod .comwrote:

>On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:33:32 -0700 (PDT), Alexnb <alexnbryan@gma il.comwrote:

>>
>>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 ')

>
urllib.urlopen gives you a file-like object for a resource at an url.
>
file gives you a file-like object for a file on the local filesystem.
>
soup = BeautifulSoup(f ile('/the/name/of/the/file'))

Except that you should use open() instead of file() -- docs prior to
Python 2.5 mistakenly had this reversed.
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