Using Python and BeautifulSoup (saved webpage source codes into a local file)

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I am using Python 2.7 + BeautifulSoup 4.3.2. I am trying to use Python and BeautifulSoup to pick up information on a webpage. Because the webpage is in the company website and requires login and redirection, I copied the target page's source code page into a file and saved it as “example.html” in C:\ for the convenience of practicing. This is a part of the original code: ``` port_new_cape 452

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May 09, 1997 Jan 23, 2009 12:05 pm ``` The code I worked out so far is: ``` from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import re import urllib2 url = "C:\example.html" page = urllib2.urlopen(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read()) cities = soup.find_all('span', {'class' : 'city-sh'})…

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With Chandan's help, the problem has been solved. All the credits shall go to him. :)

the "urllib2.url" is useless here.

```
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
# import urllib2

url = "C:\example.html"
page = open(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read())

cities = soup.find_all('span', {'class' : 'city-sh'})

for city in cities:
    print city
```

Using Python and BeautifulSoup (saved webpage source codes into a local file)

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