html to text conversion using python language

Question

import urllib2

from BeautifulSoup import *

resp = urllib2.urlopen("file:///D:/sample.html")

rawhtml = resp.read()

resp.close()
print rawhtml

I am using this code to get text from a html document, but it also gives me html code. What should i do to fetch only text from the html document?

Answer 1

Note that your example makes no use of Beautifulsoup. See the doc, and follow examples.

The following example, taken from the link above, searches the soup for <td> elements.

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

page = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
for incident in soup('td', width="90%"):
    where, linebreak, what = incident.contents[:3]
    print where.strip()
    print what.strip()
    print