Monday 3 December 2007

Sample python code Exercise 04 prettified


""" Markup Example 04


Adding the accept header for xHTML

author: Julian Harty
edited: 03 December 2007
"""
import urllib
import BeautifulSoup

request = urllib.FancyURLopener()
request.addheader('Accept', 'application/xhtml+xml')
response = request.open("http://www.google.co.uk/m")
content = response.read()

# Display the formatted contents
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(content)
print soup.prettify()

# write the content to a file so it can be displayed in a browser
f = open("markup_ex04_prettified.xml", "wb")
f.write(content)
f.close()