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use .content in lxml

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This can also be thought of as a bug in lxml.
It just occurred to me that maybe I should fix that.
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Thomas Levine
2015-11-04 20:00:59 -05:00
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@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ parse it using the ``html`` module and save the results in ``tree``:
.. code-block:: python
page = requests.get('http://econpy.pythonanywhere.com/ex/001.html')
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
(We need to use ``page.content`` rather than ``page.text`` because
``html.fromstring`` implicitly expects ``bytes`` as input.)
``tree`` now contains the whole HTML file in a nice tree structure which
we can go over two different ways: XPath and CSSSelect. In this example, we