Writing dictionary to file (web code)
Mike Brenner
mikeb at mitre.org
Fri Sep 8 16:53:51 EDT 2000
Gustav > Hi, I'm looking for an elegant way to write a dictionary to a
file.
Since the task is elegance not efficiency, it is possible to use the
fact that the worldwide web is a distributed, associative dictionary.
Put each element of the dictionary on its own web page, then have one
extra web page that has a hyperlink to each of those web pages. The
human brain works a lot like that.
The following python code shows how to do this.
# python-dictionary-to-web (dict2web) script
# PUT DICTIONARY HERE:
x ={"apple fruits": "apples are green Fall fruits that like to go into
pies",
"peaches": "peaches are orange Georgia fruits that like to go into
jams",
"bing cherries": "cherries are black Northwest fruits that like to go
BING!",
"bananas": "fruit flies like a banana and time flies like a ..."}
for i in x.keys(): print i
output_directory="C:/tmp/"
print "The output_directory is ["+output_directory+"]"
import string
import sys
import time
black = "000000";
grey = "222222";
red = "880000";
dark_red = "ff0000";
orange = "ff8822";
yellow = "448822";
dark_green = "00ff00";
green = "008800";
cyan = "00ffff";
blue = "0000ff";
dark_blue = "0000ff";
purple = "ff00ff";
brown = "888844";
white = "ffffff";
def iu(message): # insert underlines for blanks
result=""
for i in message:
if i==' ':result=result+'_'
elif i=='/':result=result+'-'
elif i==':':pass
else: result=result+i
return result
def low_level(hue="#00FF00#",
key="key",
data="data",
time=time.ctime(time.time()),
file="Cdummy.htm"):
g=open(output_directory+file,'w+')
g.write('<html><head><title>DICTIONARY-2-WEB.COM
(member)</title></head>')
g.write('<body stylesrc="http://Default.htm">')
g.write('<p>Data ['+data+']</p>')
g.write('<p>Key ['+key+"] became ["+iu(key)+"] at ["+time+']</p>')
g.write('<p> </p>')
g.write('</body>')
g.write('</html>')
g.close()
k=open(output_directory+"index.htm",'w+')
k.write('<html><head><title>DICTIONARY-2-WEB.COM (top)</title></head>')
k.write('<body stylesrc="http://Default.htm">')
for i in x.keys():
ukey=iu(i)
low_level(key=i, data=x[i], file=ukey+'.htm')
k.write("<p><a href="+ukey+".htm><font
face=Arial><small>"+i+"</small></font></a>")
print "finished writing to the file ["+ukey+']'
k.write('</body>')
k.write('</html>')
k.close()
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