syntax from diveintopython
Mark Pilgrim
f8dy at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 18 10:39:01 EDT 2001
"iddwb" <iddwb at imap1.asu.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0104180243040.6996-100000 at moroni.pp.asu.edu...
> I've tried again with a formulation from Guido's intro to web
> programming. Here's the error..
>
> =====================================
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./html3", line 46, in ?
> htmlbuffer.feed(buffer)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/sgmllib.py", line 82, in feed
> self.rawdata = self.rawdata + data
> TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation
>
> ===================================
> buffer = f.readlines()
> f.close()
> htmlbuffer.feed(buffer)
> htmlbuffer.close()
f.readlines() returns a list of strings (one for each line in the input
file), but htmlbuffer.feed is expecting one big string. The solution is to
do this instead:
buffer = f.read()
This will read the entire HTML file into a single string.
More on lists:
http://diveintopython.org/odbchelper_list.html
More on file methods:
http://diveintopython.org/fileinfo_files.html
More on why you should upgrade to Python 2.0:
http://www.amk.ca/python/2.0/
Hope this helps.
-M
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