gistfile1.txt

I'm going to pause after every step of this process, and explain what I've done. I hope that is sufficiently annoying for you.
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So, first we'll get a list of every player in the NBA and their respective positions off of a list on yahoo sports:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players?type=position&c=NBA&pos=

This will be the data we will work from.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_me.py", line 9, in <module>
    scrapenames.scrape('namelist.txt')
  File "/Users/brapse/Downloads/bball/scrapenames.py", line 15, in scrape
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py", line 100, in __init__
    self._feed()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py", line 113, in _feed
    self.builder.feed(self.markup)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bs4/builder/_htmlparser.py", line 46, in feed
    super(HTMLParserTreeBuilder, self).feed(markup)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 108, in feed
    self.goahead(0)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/HTMLParser.py", line 171, in goahead
    self.handle_charref(name)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bs4/builder/_htmlparser.py", line 58, in handle_charref
    self.handle_data(unichr(int(name)))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'xBB'