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root = "/a/b/c/d/"

def removeroot(path):
    return path.replace(root, "")

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

pathtohtml = "/Users/formido/tmp/vallejo.html"

import os

os.path.exists(pathtohtml)

file = open(pathtohtml)

html = file.read()

print html

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

# will be None if it's not there
layer3 = soup.find(id="Layer3")

layer2 = layer3.prettify().replace("Layer3", "Layer2")


soup.find('title')