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Here is my input:
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<div class="content">
<div class="stream-item-header">
<a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/jimcramer" data-user-id="14216123">
<img class="avatar js-action-profile-avatar" src="Twitter%20_%20Search%20-%20%23tsla_files/988b4c2369623b634782f4c0469ec38f_normal.jpg" alt="">
<strong class="fullname js-action-profile-name show-popup-with-id">Jim Cramer</strong>
<span></span><span class="username js-action-profile-name"><s>@</s><b>jimcramer</b></span>
</a>
<small class="time">
<a href="https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/405348028417994752" class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink js-nav js-tooltip" title="3:51 PM - 26 Nov 13"><span class="_timestamp js-short-timestamp " data-time="1385477475" data-long-form="true">26 Nov</span></a>
</small>
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<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text">Love this spirited & rigorous <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24TSLA&src=ctag" data-query-source="cashtag_click" class="twitter-cashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr"><s>$</s><b>TSLA</b></a> defense ! RT <a href="https://twitter.com/InfennonLabs" class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr"><s>@</s><b>InfennonLabs</b></a>: Why are these idiots selling <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tsla&src=hash" data-query-source="hashtag_click" class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr"><s>#</s><b><strong>tsla</strong></b></a> are they that blind? <a href="https://twitter.com/jimcramer" class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr"><s>@</s><b>jimcramer</b></a></p>
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<div class="context">
<span class="metadata with-icn">
<i class=" badge-top"></i>Favorited 5 times</span>
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For instance this "input" is in my input variable.
Here is my code:
start_link = input.find(' <p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text" ')
if i run it, i'll get the following error:
start_link = input.find('<p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text" ')
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
How can I fix this?
NOTE: type of my input variable is: class 'bytes'
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You can't use bytes.find() to find a str object inside a bytes object(since they're different types, a str can't be inside bytes).
You can, however, look for a bytes object inside it. This should work:
start_link = input.find(b' <p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text" ')
Btw, you should be using an html parser if you're parsing html.
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You can also make the data coming from your input a str object, like this:
url = "http://www.google.com"
req = request.Request(url)
response = request.urlopen(req)
page = str(response.read()) # make it a str object
print(page[page.find('id='):]) # now you don't need a b in front of your string
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