Beautifulsoup code that is not running

[Zeynel]

Hello,

Please help with this code suggested in the beautifulsoup group
http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_frm/thread/d288555c6992ceaa

This runs without an error, but nothing is written into the
extract.text file. test.html has <title></title> tags in it.

Thank you.

 

[Peter Pearson]

This runs without an error, but nothing is written into the
extract.text file. test.html has <title></title> tags in it.

Hmm. Works for me, but of course I don't have your test.html.
Why don't you try examining "title" and "titleString"? Perhaps
<title></title> has resulted in titleString being the empty string.

 

[Zeynel]

Yes, it shows as empty string. But I learned about Scrapy and now I am
studying the tutorial. I like it better than BeautifulSoup. For
beginners it is better, I think.

[snip]

This runs without an error, but nothing is written into the
extract.text file. test.html has <title></title> tags in it.

Hmm.  Works for me, but of course I don't have your test.html.
Why don't you try examining "title" and "titleString"?  Perhaps
<title></title> has resulted in titleString being the empty string.