Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive
alister
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Thu Aug 14 11:33:09 EDT 2014
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
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> Python 27 prompt, all the examples I come across seem to require for
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> access for the html file be on a server, rather than on the same
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> computer's C drive. I want to do this as a prerequisite to writing
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> webscraping code, surmising that if I can get the Python 27
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> prompt (inclusive of 'Beautiful Soup''Urllib' 'Requests' downloads ) to
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> output pertinent html code from a html document, then I can proceed to
> use
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> similar code to ouput html code from URL addresses, such as
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> 'RacingPost.com' 'SportingLife.com''Oddschecker.com' and
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> 'Bestbetting.com' which is what I am interested in working on.
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> 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()
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