On 2011-11-13 23:37, goldtech wrote:
If I try:
...
soup = BeautifulSoup(ft3)
f = open(r'c:\NewFolder\clean4.html', "w")
f.write(soup)
f.close()
I get error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and Settings\user01\Desktop\py\tb1a.py", line
203, in<module>
f.write(soup)
TypeError: expected a character buffer object
I want to write beautiful soup's result to a file, I am doing
something wrong. Help appreciated.
BeautifulSoup takes a html document in the form of a string or file-like
oject and creates an internal data-structure after parsing it:
Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:05:24)
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> html = "<html><body>Demo"
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> type(soup)
<class 'BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup'>
To write the modified document into a file, you have to convert this
structur back into a string:
>>> new_html = str(soup)
>>> type(new_html)
<type 'str'>
>>> new_html
'<html>\n <body>\n Demo\n </body>\n</html>'
HTH, Andreas
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