Launch HTML code in browser (that is generated by BeautifulSoup) straight from Python

Question

I have used BeautifulSoup for Python 3.3 to successfully pull desired info from a web page. I have also used BeautifulSoup to generate new HTML code to display this info. Cu

Answer 1

Using webbrowser.open:

import os
import webbrowser

html = ' ...  generated html string ...'
path = os.path.abspath('temp.html')
url = 'file://' + path

with open(path, 'w') as f:
    f.write(html)
webbrowser.open(url)

Alternative using NamedTemporaryFile (to make the file eventually deleted by OS):

import tempfile
import webbrowser

html = ' ...  generated html string ...'

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w', delete=False, suffix='.html') as f:
    url = 'file://' + f.name
    f.write(html)
webbrowser.open(url)