cannot open files at BeatifulSoup lxml parser

Question

I am trying to read the contents of an HTML file with BeautifulSoup, but I'm receiving an UnicodeDecodeError.

I have the file in the project folder its an HTML file

I also tried changing the parser to html.parser instead of the lxml but it doesn't work.

however, if I use the requests library to request the URL, it works, but not if I read the HTML file locally.

answer: I needed to add a Unicode and it was should have something like that: with open('lap.html', encoding="utf8") as html_file:

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '20 at 20:56

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You are passing a file to 'BeautifulSoup' instead you have to pass the content of the file.

try : content = html_file.read() source = BeautifulSoup(content, 'lxml')

answered Dec 02 '20 at 20:56

EL hassane

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add the encoding to file open [charmap' codec can't decode byte python](https://stackoverflow.com/a/9233174/6602608) – EL hassane Dec 02 '20 at 21:04
Then edit your answer to the actual or let him mark mine, since i mentioned the coding standart already – Timeler Dec 02 '20 at 21:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '20 at 20:58

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First of all, fix the soruce to source, then make a gap between the equal sign and the text and then find out, what might not be encodable by the coding standart you use, because that error refers to a sign which cant be decoded/encoded

answered Dec 02 '20 at 20:58

Timeler

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I fix it you can see the image now ty – sunisstick Dec 02 '20 at 21:04
Yeah but you still have an exotic sign in this file which cant be coded, like some sign for a currency or a letter in russian or something like that. Either try to delete that, or change the coding standart. If both doesnt work, make a catch for it – Timeler Dec 02 '20 at 21:06
how can I change the coding standard? – sunisstick Dec 02 '20 at 21:07
I see it works now, thats basically what i wanted to say – Timeler Dec 02 '20 at 21:16

cannot open files at BeatifulSoup lxml parser

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