syntax from diveintopython

[Sheila King]

You have indentation errors. You have mixed tabs and spaces and on some of
your space indents, the number of spaces is five and on some it is four.

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Sheila King
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:12:29 +0000, iddwb <iddwb at imap1.asu.edu> wrote in
comp.lang.python in article
<Pine.LNX.4.21.0104171708400.6664-100000 at moroni.pp.asu.edu>:

:
:I've been going through the diveintopython stuff.  Mostly excellent
:material.  however, there is syntax I don't understand was hoping someone
:could enlighten me..
:
:Here's the code i've been working with.  I borrowed the code to create my
:own HTMLProc class.  The difficulties begin with the uknown_starttag
:function.  I keep getting a syntax error on the strattrs assignment.  I
:thought I copied the code verbatim but it still generates a syntax
:error.  Now, if I understood the syntax, I could fix it (probably).  But I
:am wondering if someone might explain the problem and the fix.
:
:#!/usr/local/bin/python
:# first test to open web pages using urlopen2
:from sgmllib import SGMLParser
:import sys
:
:class HTMLProc(SGMLParser):
:        def reset(self):
:	# from diveintopython.org, extends SGMLParser
:	     SGMLParser.reset(self)
:	     self.parts = []
:
:	def unknown_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
:		strattrs = "".join([' %(key)s="%(value)s"' % locals() for key, value in attrs])
:		self.parts.append("<%(tag)s%(strattrs)s>" % locals())
:		
:	def unknown_endtag(self, tag):
:		self.parts.append("</%(tag)s>" % locals())
:
:	def output(self):
:		return "".join(self.parts)
:	     
:def do_body(fd):
:	try:
:		gmlbuffer = HTMLProc()
:		gmlbuffer.feed(fd.read())
:		fd.close()
:		gmlbuffer.close()
:	except AttributeError:
:                gmlbuffer.unknown_starttag("body", "bgcolor")
:		print "Attribute Error"
:                return -1
:	print "done with body"
:	return gmlbuffer
:
:if __name__ == '__main__':
:#	print sys.argv[1:]
:	try:
:		f = open("dean.html")
:	except IOError:
:		print "couldn't open ", sys.argv[1:]
:		sys.exit(1)
:	htmlbuff = do_body(f)
:	print htmlbuff.parts
:
:David Bear
:College of Public Programs/ASU