On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> Python 27 prompt, all the examples I come across seem to require for >> >> access for the html file be on a server, rather than on the same >> >> computer's C drive. I want to do this as a prerequisite to writing >> >> webscraping code, surmising that if I can get the Python 27 >> >> prompt (inclusive of 'Beautiful Soup''Urllib' 'Requests' downloads ) to >> >> output pertinent html code from a html document, then I can proceed to >> use >> >> similar code to ouput html code from URL addresses, such as >> >> 'RacingPost.com' 'SportingLife.com''Oddschecker.com' and >> >> 'Bestbetting.com' which is what I am interested in working on. >> >> 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()
Alternatively you can continue to use urlopen and just pass it a file:// URL. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
