On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:21:47 PM UTC-5, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:37:47 -0800, ryguy7272 wrote:
>
> > I'm trying the script below...
>
> The problem isn't that you're over-writing the lines (although it may
> seem that way to you), the problem is that you're overwriting the whole
> file every time you write a link to it. This is because you open and
> close the file for every link you write, and you do so in file mode "wb"
> which restarts writing at the first byte of the file every time.
>
> You only need to open and close the text file once, instead of for every
> link you output. Try moving the lines to open and close the file outside
> the outer for loop to change the loop from:
>
> for item in soup.find_all(class_='lister-list'):
> for link in item.find_all('a'):
> # open file
> # write link to file
> # close file
>
> to:
>
> # open file
> for item in soup.find_all(class_='lister-list'):
> for link in item.find_all('a'):
> # write link to file
> # close file
>
> Alternatively, use the with form:
>
> with open("blah","wb") as text_file:
> for item in soup.find_all(class_='lister-list'):
> for link in item.find_all('a'):
> # write link to file
>
> --
> Denis McMahon,
Yes, I just figured it out. Thanks.
It doesn't seem like the '\n' is doing anything useful. All the text is
jumbled together. When I open the file in Excel, or Notepad++, it is easy to
read. However, when I open it in as a regular text file, everything is jumbled
together. Is there an easy way to fix this?
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