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Asked: May 31, 20262026-05-31T20:33:31+00:00 2026-05-31T20:33:31+00:00

New to Python, have a simple, situational question: Trying to use BeautifulSoup to parse

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New to Python, have a simple, situational question:

Trying to use BeautifulSoup to parse a series of pages.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request

BeautifulSoup(urllib.request.urlopen('http://bit.ly/'))

Traceback …

html.parser.HTMLParseError: expected name token at '<!=KN\x01...

Working on Windows 7 64-bit with Python 3.2.

Do I need Mechanize? (which would entail Python 2.X)

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    2026-05-31T20:33:32+00:00Added an answer on May 31, 2026 at 8:33 pm

    If that URL is correct, you’re asking why an HTML parser throws an error parsing an MP3 file. I believe the answer to this to be self-evident…

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