trying to write beautifulsoup result to a file

[leegold2]

If I try:
...
soup = BeautifulSoup(ft3)
f = open(r'c:\NewFolder\clean4.html', "w")
f.write(soup)
f.close()

I get error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and Settings\user01\Desktop\py\tb1a.py", line
203, in <module>
f.write(soup)
TypeError: expected a character buffer object

I want to write beautiful soup's result to a file, I am doing
something wrong. Help appreciated.

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

Seems that [tt]write()[/tt] not calls [tt]__str__()[/tt] automatically. Just call it yourself : [tt]f[teal].[/teal]write[teal]([/teal][highlight]str[teal]([/teal][/highlight]soup[highlight][teal])[/teal][/highlight][teal])[/teal][/tt].


Feherke.

 

[IPGuru]

personally when writing out i would use f.write (soup.prettify()) as this results in a nice readable output.


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[leegold2]

Thank you for the help!!!