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Reputation: 725

Reading an HTML File from Folder in Python

I want to read an HTML file in Python 3.4.3.

I have tried:

import urllib.request
fname = r"C:\Python34\html.htm"
HtmlFile = open(fname,'w')
print (HtmlFile)

This prints:

<_io.TextIOWrapper name='C:\\Python34\\html.htm' mode='w' encoding='cp1252'>

I want to get the HTML source so that I can parse it with beautiful soup.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 40427

Answers (2)

Yogesh Awdhut Gadade
Yogesh Awdhut Gadade

Reputation: 2708

I was trying to read the saved HTML file in the folder. I tried code mentioned by Vikasa but was getting an error. So I changed the code and tried to read it again it worked for me. The code is as follows:

    fname = 'page_source.html' #this html file is stored on the same folder of the code file
    html_file = open(fname, 'r')
    source_code = html_file.read()

print the html page using 

source_code

It will print the content read from the page_source.html file.

Upvotes: 1

Vikas Ojha
Vikas Ojha

Reputation: 6950

You will have to read the contents of the file.

HtmlFile = open(fname, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
source_code = HtmlFile.read()

Upvotes: 14

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