how to get the source of html in lxml?

Dave Angel d at davea.name
Mon Dec 31 01:51:47 EST 2012


On 12/31/2012 01:32 AM, contro opinion wrote:
> import urllibimport lxml.html
> down='http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_71f3890901017hof.html'
> file=urllib.urlopen(down).read()
> root=lxml.html.document_fromstring(file)
> body=root.xpath('//div[@class="articalContent  "]')[0]print body.text_content()
>
> When i run the code, what i get is the text content ,how can i get the html
> source code of it?
>
>

That's got several syntax errors, but if you remove the parts with
errors, you'll find the html source in the misnamed variable 'file'. 
The read() method returns a string.



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DaveA




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