Problems with HTMLgen tables

[Thomas A. Bryan]

"Martin Skøtt" wrote:
> Can you help me solve the problem? (Red Hat 5.2, Python 1.5.1)

Yes.

> html-table.py:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import string, HTMLgen
> data = 'netstats/data.dat'
> fil = open(data, 'r')
> fila = fil.readlines()
> doc = HTMLgen.SimpleDocument(title='Interface statistik for ppp0')
> table = HTMLgen.Table()
> table.body = []
> doc.append(table)
> for line in fila:
>     inf = string.strip(line)
>     table.body.append(inf)
> 
> doc.write("data.html")

The problem is in the line that reads
inf = string.strip(line)

You probably want
inf = string.split(line)  # this makes the most sense to me
or 
inf = [string.strip(line)]

You could also fix the problem at the point where you 
append to the table.body.
table.body.append([inf])

The table.body is a list of lists.  Each list in 
table.body is a (table) row.  Each element of the nested 
lists is a (table data) column in that row.

You were appending plain strings returned by string.strip.

---Tom