Simon Evans wrote:
> Dear Peter Otten, thank you for your reply that I have not gone very far
> into the detail of which, as it seems Python console cannot recognise the
> name 'f' as given it, re output below :
>
>
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win 32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
>>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>>> with open("C:\Beautiful Soup\ecologicalpyramid.html","r")as f:
>>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(f, "lxml")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'f' is not defined
>>>>
Is that copy-and-paste? When I try to reproduce that I get
$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> with open("C:\Beautiful Soup\ecologicalpyramid.html","r")as f:
... soup = BeautifulSoup(f, "lxml")
File "<stdin>", line 2
soup = BeautifulSoup(f, "lxml")
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
and when I indent the soup = ... line properly I don't get an error:
$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> with open("C:\Beautiful Soup\ecologicalpyramid.html","r")as f:
... soup = BeautifulSoup(f, "lxml")
...
>>>
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