[Tutor] reading web page with BeautifulSoup

[शंतनू]

On 13/12/12 12:47 PM, Ed Owens wrote:
> >>> from urllib2 import urlopen
> >>> page = urlopen('w1.weather.gov/obhistory/KDCA.html')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py",
> line 126, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>   File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py",
> line 386, in open
>     protocol = req.get_type()
>   File
> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py",
> line 248, in get_type
>     raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
> ValueError: unknown url type: w1.weather.gov/obhistory/KDCA.html
> >>>
>
> Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?  I have bs4 and urllib2
> imported, and get the above error when trying to read that page.  I
> can copy the url from the error message into my browser and get the page.

You may try the URL with 'http://' or 'https://' instead of 'w1.'.

HTH.

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