On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:09:11 -0700, Simon Evans wrote: > Dear Programmers, I want to access a html file on my C drive, in the > > Python 27 prompt, all the examples I come across seem to require for > > access for the html file be on a server, rather than on the same > > computer's C drive. I want to do this as a prerequisite to writing > > webscraping code, surmising that if I can get the Python 27 > > prompt (inclusive of 'Beautiful Soup''Urllib' 'Requests' downloads ) to > > output pertinent html code from a html document, then I can proceed to > use > > similar code to ouput html code from URL addresses, such as > > 'RacingPost.com' 'SportingLife.com''Oddschecker.com' and > > 'Bestbetting.com' which is what I am interested in working on. > > Hope you can help. > > Yours Simon Evans.
have you read the online tutorial http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs3/documentation.html modifying the example slightly to read from a file rather than inline code would give (typed direct so untested) from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as bs data =open('myfile').read() soup=bs(data) print soup.prettify() -- Due to the CDA, we no longer have a root account. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
