[FIXED] How do I properly format code for desired appending output?

Issue

I'm writing new code and having problem getting desired output. The code reads an html file and finds tags. it outputs the url only. I insert additional code to complete the link. I'm trying to insert the url two times within the string.

####### Parse for <a> tags and save ############
with open("page1.html", 'r') as htmlb:
    soup2 = BeautifulSoup(htmlb, 'lxml')
links = []
for link in soup2.findAll('a', attrs={'href':   re.compile("^https://")}):
    links.append('<a href="'+link.get('href')+'">'"{link}"'</a><br>')

time.sleep(.1)

with  open("page-2.html", 'w') as html:
    html.write('{links}\n'.format(links=links))

Solution

This should give you the desired html output file:

import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import html 

with open("page1.html", 'r') as htmlb:
    soup2 = BeautifulSoup(htmlb, 'lxml')



with open("page2.html", 'w') as h:
    for link in soup2.find_all('a'):
       h.write("<a href=\"{}\">{}</a><br>".format(link.get('href'),link.get('href')))    

Answered By - dejanualex