need a bit of help with htmllib

import htmllib
import formatter

w = formatter.DumbWriter()
f = formatter.AbstractFormatter(w)

file = open("assign.html")

parser = htmllib.HTMLParser(f)
parser.feed(open('assign.html').read())
parser.close()

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I've recently began to learn python, so i need a bit of help. Instead of outputting the text on the screen how can i store it in a string or a text file?

Pass an instance of a file (or file-like) object to the constructor for DumbWriter().

to write to a string you can use a StringIO object, which behaves like a file, but stores the 'file' in memory so that you can extract it later as a string.

Dave - The Developers' Coach