Trying to write beautifulsoup result to a file and get error message

goldtech · Nov 13, 2011

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

MRAB · Nov 13, 2011

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.

What do you mean by "beautiful soup's result"?

The original HTML is text, and you want it to write some text to the
file, but what exactly are you expecting it to write?

Andreas Perstinger · Nov 14, 2011

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.

BeautifulSoup takes a html document in the form of a string or file-like
oject and creates an internal data-structure after parsing it:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:05:24)
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.<class 'BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup'>

To write the modified document into a file, you have to convert this
structur back into a string:
'<html>\n <body>\n Demo\n </body>\n</html>'

HTH, Andreas

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Trying to write beautifulsoup result to a file and get error message

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