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Re: Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, alister
<alister.nospam.ware@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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Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-14 08:09 -0700
  Re: Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-08-14 15:33 +0000
    Re: Code to Python 27 prompt to access a html file stored on C drive Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 10:04 -0600

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