Re: step 1 from doc = soup=BeautifulSoup(html_doc)

[Sparky]

On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:31:48 AM UTC-6, Sparky wrote:

Greetings,

 

I have Python 2.7 and have installed Beautiful Soup

the "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup"  works

 

I have created (copied and pasted) the html_doc from the documentation.

 

When I execute "soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc) I get "

 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
    soup = BeautifulSoup(htmldoc2)
NameError: name 'htmldoc2' is not defined"

 

help?

 

Thanks

[Sparky]

Never mind – for completeness, let me explain in case it helps somebody.

This line (from the documentation: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#name ) gives the error:

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)

This Line works:

soup = BeautifulSoup (open("html_doc.html"))

I found the “open” syntax searching around.

-Sparky