File not found error - beautiful soup. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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Hi, I'm currently following a tutorial to learn web scraping with Beautiful Soup and when I run the following:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with open('home.html', 'r') as html_file:
    content = html.file .read()
    print(content)

I get this error:

/Users/luke/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/venv/bin/python /Users/luke/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/luke/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/main.py", line 3, in <module>
    with open('home.html', 'r') as html_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'home.html'

Process finished with exit code 1

What I have tried:

Not much since I have no idea what I'm doing but I appreciate any help.

Posted 15-Apr-21 23:25pm

Luke Norris

Updated 15-Apr-21 23:37pm

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Richard MacCutchan 16-Apr-21 9:26am

Where is the file "home.html" that you are trying to read?

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2021-04-15T23:37:00

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File not found error - beautiful soup. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Simple, 'home.html' is not where you think it is, or you code do not execute in directory where you think it is.
Solutions
- make sure file is in correct directory and that code execute in correct directory.
- Include directory of file with filename, like 'mydirectory/home.html'.

Only you can find exact solution.