simple Question about using BeautifulSoup

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1901.1219243610.922.python-list at python.org>,
Jean-Paul Calderone  <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:33:32 -0700 (PDT), Alexnb <alexnbryan at gmail.com> 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')
>
>  urllib.urlopen gives you a file-like object for a resource at an url.
>
>  file gives you a file-like object for a file on the local filesystem.
>
>  soup = BeautifulSoup(file('/the/name/of/the/file'))

Except that you should use open() instead of file() -- docs prior to
Python 2.5 mistakenly had this reversed.
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