From lesson "HTML to List of Words (part 2)" - Find command does not work (obo.py)

[grabani]

Running the 'html-to-list1.py' file from the 'python-lessons3.zip' I get the following error:

TypeError: argument should be integer or bytes-like object, not 'str'

The full title of the lesson
Lesson Tile: From HTML to List of Words (part 2)

• The system you are using (Mac, Linux, Windows)
  System = Windows
• Version numbers of the relevant software you are using
  Python = 3.7.6
  Windows = 10
• The exact steps you took that caused the problem
  C:\Users\joe\Desktop\python-lessons3>python html-to-list1.py
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "html-to-list1.py", line 8, in
  text = obo.stripTags(html)
  File "C:\Users\grabani\Desktop\python-lessons3\obo.py", line 3, in stripTags
  startLoc = pageContents.find("

  ")
  _TypeError: argument should be integer or bytes-like object, not 'str'_

It would seem that in the obo.py module, a call to the find command fails as it is acting upon a binary type (i.e. 'pageContents' is of type 'binary) whilst the find command requires a string to act upon.

I have managed to overcome this limitation by converting 'pageContents' to string using the syntax 'pageContents= str(pageContents)'. However, as I am working with text other than english this is causing me issues later on.

PS - Great site. Has proven to be a useful resource.

[walshbr]

This is a duplicate of #1768 so I'll close.

Should be resolved by #1785 when we merge that PR.