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Strange Python Error
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Good evening,

When running my code, it is giving me an error that I am not understanding as it has lines referenced that I don't have. My code only has 234 lines, but the error is referencing things that I do not have listed in my code. How do I figure out what the problem is?

This is where it is saying my error is. But I am not sure why:
 def set_content_to_tag(self, tag, tag_id=None):
        """Changes _content to the text within a specific element of an HTML document.
            Keyword arguments:
                tag (str) -- Tag to read
                tag_id (str) -- ID of tag to read
            It's possible the HTML does not contain the tag being searched. 
            You should use exception handling to catch any errors."""
             
        soup = BeautifulSoup(self._content, 'html.parser')
        content = soup.find('{}'.format(tag),{'id':'{}'.format(tag_id)})
        if content == None:
            raise Exception ("Tag or attribute does not exist")
        self._content = content.getText()
        print(content)
This is the error it shows, and I am completely lost. Can someone help me understand why it is referencing lines of code I don't have, and how it got there?
Error:
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-3-6ba650ec7019> in <module>() 218 print(ta._orig_content) 219 print(ta._orig_content) --> 220 ta.set_content_to_tag('div','content-main') 221 ta.set_content_to_tag('div' ,'device-xs visible-xs') 222 print(ta._content) <ipython-input-3-6ba650ec7019> in set_content_to_tag(self, tag, tag_id) 58 You should use exception handling to catch any errors.""" 59 ---> 60 soup = BeautifulSoup(self._content, 'html.parser') 61 content = soup.find('{}'.format(tag),{'id':'{}'.format(tag_id)}) 62 if content == None: ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py in __init__(self, markup, features, builder, parse_only, from_encoding, exclude_encodings, **kwargs) 277 self.contains_replacement_characters) in ( 278 self.builder.prepare_markup( --> 279 markup, from_encoding, exclude_encodings=exclude_encodings)): 280 self.reset() 281 try: ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_htmlparser.py in prepare_markup(self, markup, user_specified_encoding, document_declared_encoding, exclude_encodings) 235 try_encodings = [user_specified_encoding, document_declared_encoding] 236 dammit = UnicodeDammit(markup, try_encodings, is_html=True, --> 237 exclude_encodings=exclude_encodings) 238 yield (dammit.markup, dammit.original_encoding, 239 dammit.declared_html_encoding, ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\bs4\dammit.py in __init__(self, markup, override_encodings, smart_quotes_to, is_html, exclude_encodings) 364 365 u = None --> 366 for encoding in self.detector.encodings: 367 markup = self.detector.markup 368 u = self._convert_from(encoding) ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\bs4\dammit.py in encodings(self) 255 if self.declared_encoding is None: 256 self.declared_encoding = self.find_declared_encoding( --> 257 self.markup, self.is_html) 258 if self._usable(self.declared_encoding, tried): 259 yield self.declared_encoding ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\bs4\dammit.py in find_declared_encoding(cls, markup, is_html, search_entire_document) 313 314 declared_encoding = None --> 315 declared_encoding_match = xml_encoding_re.search(markup, endpos=xml_endpos) 316 if not declared_encoding_match and is_html: 317 declared_encoding_match = html_meta_re.search(markup, endpos=html_endpos) TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
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Strange Python Error - by moga2003 - Mar-09-2019, 01:17 AM
RE: Strange Python Error - by metulburr - Mar-09-2019, 01:57 AM
RE: Strange Python Error - by moga2003 - Mar-09-2019, 02:17 AM
RE: Strange Python Error - by ichabod801 - Mar-09-2019, 03:14 AM

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