Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive
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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive
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()
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Re: Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive
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.
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