simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

Grzegorz Staniak gstaniak at wp.pl
Wed Aug 20 10:39:36 EDT 2008


On 2008-08-20, Alexnb <alexnbryan at gmail.com> wroted:

> 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?

Have you tried the local file URL, like "file:///home/user/file.html"?

GS
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Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak _at_ wp [dot] pl>



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