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Diffstat (limited to 'bs4/__init__.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | bs4/__init__.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bs4/__init__.py b/bs4/__init__.py index 272d44a..6d44c95 100644 --- a/bs4/__init__.py +++ b/bs4/__init__.py @@ -164,7 +164,11 @@ class BeautifulSoup(Tag): # involving passing non-markup to Beautiful Soup. # Beautiful Soup will still parse the input as markup, # just in case that's what the user really wants. - if os.path.exists(markup): + if isinstance(markup, unicode): + possible_filename = markup.encode("utf8") + else: + possible_filename = markup + if os.path.exists(possible_filename): warnings.warn( '"%s" looks like a filename, not markup. You should probably open this file and pass the filehandle into Beautiful Soup.' % markup) if markup[:5] == "http:" or markup[:6] == "https:": |