Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scrapewaybackblog.py", line 17, in <module>
    daypos = byline.find(re.compile("[A-Z][a-z]*s"))
TypeError: expected a character buffer object

for i in xrange(3, 1, -1):
       page = urllib2.urlopen("http://web.archive.org/web/20090204221349/http://www.americansforprosperity.org/nationalblog?page={}".format(i))
       soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read())
       snippet = soup.find_all('div', attrs={'class': 'blog-box'})
       for div in snippet:
           byline =  div.find('div', attrs={'class': 'date'}).text.encode('utf-8')
           text = div.find('div', attrs={'class': 'right-box'}).text.encode('utf-8')

           monthpos = byline.find(",")
           daypos = byline.find(re.compile("[A-Z][a-z]*s"))
           yearpos = byline.find(re.compile("[A-Z][a-z]*Dd*w*s"))
           endpos = monthpos + len(byline)

           month = byline[monthpos+1:daypos]
           day = byline[daypos+0:yearpos]
           year = byline[yearpos+2:endpos]

           output_files_pathname = 'Data/'  # path where output will go
           new_filename = year + month + day + ".txt"
           outfile = open(output_files_pathname + new_filename,'w')
           outfile.write(date)
           outfile.write("n")
           outfile.write(text)
           outfile.close()
       print "finished another url from page {}".format(i)