title: How to I make the result of this a variable?
body: <p>right now its set up to write to a file, but I want it to output the value to a variable. not sure how.</p>
  
  <pre><code>from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  import sys, re, urllib2
  import codecs
  
  
  woof1 = urllib2.urlopen('someurl').read()
  woof_1 = BeautifulSoup(woof1)
  woof2 = urllib2.urlopen('someurl').read()
  woof_2 = BeautifulSoup(woof2)
  
  GE_DB = open('GE_DB.txt', 'a')
  
  for row in woof_1.findAll("tr", { "class" : "row_b" }):
    for col in row.findAll(re.compile('td')):
      GE_DB.write(col.string if col.string else '')
  GE_DB.write("   ")
  GE_DB.write("\n")
  GE_DB.close()
  for row in woof_2.findAll("tr", { "class" : "row_b" }):
    for col in row.findAll(re.compile('td')):
      GE_DB.write(col.string if col.string else '')
  GE_DB.write("\n")
  GE_DB.close()
  </code></pre>