I tried to use this script which I found on the web :-
import urllib2, pprint
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
def cellToWord(cell):
"""Given a table cell, return the word in that
cell."""
# Some words are in bold.
if cell('b'):
return cell.first('b').string.strip() #
Return the bold piece.
else:
return cell.string.split('.')[1].strip() #
Remove the number.
def parse(url):
"""Parse the given URL and return a dictionary
mapping US words to
foreign words."""
# Read the URL and pass it to BeautifulSoup.
html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup()
soup.feed(html)
# Read the main table, extracting the words from
the table cells.
USToForeign = {}
mainTable = soup.first('table')
rows = mainTable('tr')
for row in rows[1:]: # Exclude the first
(headings) row.
cells = row('td')
if len(cells) == 3: # Some rows have a
single colspan="3" cell.
US = cellToWord(cells[0])
foreign = cellToWord(cells[1])
USToForeign[US] = foreign
return USToForeign
if __name__ == '__main__':
url =
'http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/FRE_word_list.htm'
USToForeign = parse(url)
pairs = USToForeign.items()
pairs.sort(lambda a, b: cmp(a[0].lower(),
b[0].lower())) # Web page order
pprint.pprint(pairs)
and it works well. However I change it to get it to
look at a file on my PC, then I get this message :-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python24\beaexp2", line 43, in -toplevel-
USToForeign = parse(url)
File "C:\Python24\beaexp2", line 20, in parse
html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 130, in
urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data)
File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 358, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 376, in
_open
'_open', req)
File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 337, in
_call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1119, in
file_open
return self.open_local_file(req)
File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1135, in
open_local_file
stats = os.stat(localfile)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'\\C:\\Python24\\FRE_word_list.htm
Any idea how to solve it ? The file is on my PC.
I am using Python 2.4 on Win XP.
Thanks in advance.
David
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