Python console rejects an object reference, having made an object with that reference as its name in previous line

[Billy Earney]

It looks like the last line (producer_entries...) is not indented at the
same extent as the previous line.  Maybe this is causing the issue?

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Simon Evans <musicalhacksaw at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Dear Python programmers,
> Having input the line of code in text:
> cd Soup
> to the Windows console, and having put the file 'EcologicalPyramid.html'
> into the Directory 'Soup', on the C drive, in accordance with instructions
> I input the following code to the Python console, as given on page 30 of
> 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup':
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win
> 32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
> >>> with open("ecologicalpyramid.html","r") as ecological_pyramid:
> ...      soup = BeautifulSoup(ecological_pyramid,"lxml")
> ... producer_entries = soup.find("ul")
>
>            ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> producer_entries = soup.find("ul")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'soup' is not defined
> >>>
>            ^
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> so I cannot proceed with the next line withh would 've been :
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> print(producer_entries.li.div.string)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> which would've given (according to the book) the output:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> plants
>
> Maybe that is getting a bit far ahead, but I can't quite see where I have
> gone wrong - 'soup' has been defined as an object made of file
> 'EcologicalPyramid.html
>
> I hope you can help me on this point.
> Yours
> Simon
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