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Arevos · May 30th, 2006, 11:45 AM

I think the problem was due to something internal to BeautifulSoup. In essense, we were trying to add a BeautifulSoup object (such as contacttable) onto a string. This should have resulted in the BeautifulSoup object being turned into a string, then added to the "<td>" string.

In practise, something went awry, so I used str to force the BeautifulSoup object into a string. I'm not sure why the forcing was necessary, but it seems to have done the trick

May 30th, 2006, 11:45 AM	#213
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	I think the problem was due to something internal to BeautifulSoup. In essense, we were trying to add a BeautifulSoup object (such as contacttable) onto a string. This should have resulted in the BeautifulSoup object being turned into a string, then added to the "<td>" string. In practise, something went awry, so I used str to force the BeautifulSoup object into a string. I'm not sure why the forcing was necessary, but it seems to have done the trick