Python help in VScode converting txt to tei

Computer Science
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New to coding so my apologies if my code is a mess. I am trying to convert a txt file to a tei file so I can analyze it further but previously I have been using xml to tei. Here is the code I have below and the error message. So I know I need to do something different to get it to analyze a txt file but I’m not sure which way would be the most efficient way to do so. Any help is much appreciated!

with open(“dracula.txt”, “r”, encoding=“utf8”) as input:
soup = bs(input, “txt”)
body = soup.find(“body”)
tei_header = soup.find(“teiHeader”)
title = tei_header.find(“title”).string
with open(“dracula.tei”, “w”) as output:
output.write(body.text)

Error: Couldn’t find a tree builder with the features you requested: txt.

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The error message suggests something is missing, here: soup = bs(input, “txt”).

Generally, it’s something like this:
soup = BeautifulSoup(webpage, "html.parser")

What parser are you using to read the HTML? You could use lxml maybe(?)

See:
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#installing-a-parser

And:

To extract certain pieces of text from the file object, you’d have to use something like,
.get_text() or,
to get all the text: print(soup.get_text())

Again, the documentation linked above is helpful. And i believe the info is also in the CC ‘Build a Web Scraper’ course.