diff --git a/readability/debug.py b/readability/debug.py
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+def save_to_file(text, filename):
+    f = open(filename, 'wt')
+    f.write('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />')
+    f.write(text.encode('utf-8'))
+    f.close()
+
+uids = {} 
+def describe(node, depth=2):
+    if not hasattr(node, 'tag'):
+        return "[%s]" % type(node)
+    name = node.tag
+    if node.get('id', ''): name += '#'+node.get('id') 
+    if node.get('class', ''): 
+        name += '.' + node.get('class').replace(' ','.')
+    if name[:4] in ['div#', 'div.']:
+        name = name[3:]
+    if name in ['tr', 'td', 'div', 'p']:
+        if not node in uids:
+            uid = uids[node] = len(uids)+1
+        else:
+            uid = uids.get(node)
+        name += "%02d" % (uid)
+    if depth and node.getparent() is not None:
+        return name+' - '+describe(node.getparent(), depth-1)
+    return name
+