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Importing beautiful soup library and extracting the list of letter links for Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium.
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hello_lucilius_import.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
# import page containing links to all of Seneca's letters
# get web address
src = "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius"
html = requests.get(src).text # pull html as text
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") # parse into BeautifulSoup object
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