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(urllib.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(open("myfile.html"))
Apart from the documented possibility to pass the html as string, which
means
soup = BeautifulSoup(open("myfile.html").read())
will work as well.
Diez
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