I need a starter ptr writing python embedded in html.

[Steven W. Orr]

I'm ok in python but I haven't done too much with web pages. I have a web page
that is hand written in html that has about 1000 entries in a table and I want
to convert the table from entries like this

<tr>
<td> Some Date String </td>
<td> SomeTag </td>
<td>
<a href="localSubdir"> A Title </a>
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html"
Click
</a>
</td>
<td> Some Comment </td>
</tr>

to

SomePythonCall('Some Date String',
'SomeTag',
'localSubdir',
"http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html",
'Click',
'Some Comment')

Can someone tell me what I should look at to do this? Is mod_python where I
should start or are there things that are better?

TIA

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[Miki]

I'm ok in python but I haven't done too much with web pages. I have a web page
that is hand written in html that has about 1000 entries in a table and I want
to convert the table from entries like this

    <tr>
      <td> Some Date String </td>
      <td> SomeTag </td>
      <td>
        <a href="localSubdir"> A Title </a>
      </td>
      <td>
        <a href="http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html"
          Click
        </a>
      </td>
      <td> Some Comment </td>
    </tr>

to

   SomePythonCall('Some Date String',
                'SomeTag',
                'localSubdir',
                "http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html",
                'Click',
                'Some Comment')

Can someone tell me what I should look at to do this? Is mod_python where I
should start or are there things that are better?

Have a look at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/.

All the best,

 

[Steven W. Orr]

Have a look at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/.

Thanks. But what I'm not seeing is any example of how to make this allowed to
generate the html at run time. I think I want to embed my python code into an
html file. Beautiful soup seems to allow me to create a preprocessor which I
could use through a Makefile to generate the html. I have the feeling I'm
missing something. Or do I use this in conjunction with wsgi?

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Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0.
happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net


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[Miki]

I'm ok in python but I haven't done too much with web pages. I have a web page

Thanks. But what I'm not seeing is any example of how to make this allowed to
generate the html at run time.

Oh, I misunderstood you. You probably want one of the templating
systems out there, such as Mako, Jinja2, Cheetah, ...

Maybe http://cherrypy.org/wiki/intro/1 will be of help.

All the best,

 

[alex23]

I'm ok in python but I haven't done too much with web pages. I have a web page
that is hand written in html that has about 1000 entries in a table and I want
to convert the table [into html]

Is the data coming from somewhere like a file or db? If so, I'd just
use something simple like this html generator:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/html

It's a very clever use of context managers to handle element
nesting

If the data doesn't change very often, I'd just write a simple script
that parses the data source and builds a html page to server
statically. If it does, it's not much extra to convert that to a WSGI
script that returns the html string rather than creating a static
file.

I use this approach to produce a browseable table from a folder full
of files with fixed-pattern names.

Hope this helps.