import requests
import datetime
from requests_html import HTML

now = datetime.datetime.now()
year = now.year


url = 'https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/'
"""
url,filename and save are parameters
filename has been initialized as box.html
while save has been initialized as False
If you don't pass new values these will be used
"""
def url_to_text(url,filename="box.html",save=False):
    r = requests.get(url)
    if r.status_code == 200:
        html_text = r.text

        #here the program checks if save equal True. if save is false it exits
        if save:
            with open(f"box-{year}.html" , 'w',encoding="utf-8") as f:
                f.write(html_text)
                return html_text
        return "" #code gets here if save =False


html_text = url_to_text(url=url,save=True)
print(type(html_text))
r_html = HTML(html=html_text)
print(r_html.find('a'))