How to open html file?

import codecs
f=codecs.open("test.html", 'r')
print f.read()

Try something like this.

You can read HTML page using 'urllib'.

 #python 2.x

  import urllib

  page = urllib.urlopen("your path ").read()
  print page

you can make use of the following code:

from __future__ import division, unicode_literals 
import codecs
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

f=codecs.open("test.html", 'r', 'utf-8')
document= BeautifulSoup(f.read()).get_text()
print document

If you want to delete all the blank lines in between and get all the words as a string (also avoid special characters, numbers) then also include:

import nltk
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
docwords=word_tokenize(document)
for line in docwords:
    line = (line.rstrip())
    if line:
        if re.match("^[A-Za-z]*$",line):
            if (line not in stop and len(line)>1):
                st=st+" "+line
print st

*define st as a string initially, like st=""