Writing a BeautifulSoup object to file Python

Question

I am trying to write a BeautifulSoup object to a file and am getting an error like some characters are unrecognized. Here is my code:

def save_soup(filename, s_obj):
    s_o = s_obj
    file = open('filename', 'w', encoding='UTF-8')
    file.write(s_o.text)
    file.close()

While running it against a test file here is the error:

AssertionError: <!DOC[2506 chars]sult:<input class="txtfld2" id="bin3" on[567 chars]html> != <!DOC[2506 chars]sult:��� <input class="txtfld2" id="bin3" on[567 chars]html>

They are exactly the same except the ??? part. What am I doing wrong. Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to do something like this..just typecasting it to string will help!

soup = BeautifulSoup(monterey.response.text, "html.parser")
f=open("res.txt","w")
f.write(str(soup))
f.close()