better way than: myPage += 'more html' , ...

Wed Jun 25 15:02:08 EDT 2003

Thanks, that opens up a world of possibilities I haven't began to 
explore.  In general, I'm not fond of templating systems because of the 
overhead, but it seems as your suggestion might be fast, since it uses 
ordinary string substitution.

--Gobo

mirko-lists at zeibig.net wrote:
> In article <3EF9CBCB.90305 at yahoo.com>, Gobo Borz wrote:
> 
>>I remember reading somewhere that building the string with successive 
>>"+=" statements is inefficient, but I don't know any alternatives, and 
>>my search attempts came up empty. Is there a better, more efficient way 
>>to do it than this:
>>
>>#---------------------------------
>>htmlPage = "<html><header></header><body>"
>>htmlPage += "more html"
>>...
>>htmlPage += "even more html"
>>...
>>htmlPage += "</body></html>"
>>print htmlPage
>>#-------------------------------------
> 
> Hello Gobo,
> 
> you may use the list solution provided in the former chapters. Some other
> solution would be to use string substitution:
> --------- snip -----------
> htmlPage = """
> <html>
>     <head>
>         <title>%(title)s</title>
>     </head>
> <body>
>     <h1>%(title)s</h1>
>     %(body)s
> </body>
> </html>
> """
> 
> body = []
> body.append("<p>my first snippet</p>")
> body.append("<ul>")
> for in range(10):
>     body.append("""<li>%s. entry</li>""" % i)
> body.append("</ul>")
> 
> contents = { "title": "My Foopage",
>              "body": "\n".join(body) }
> 
> print htmlPage % contents
> -------- snap -------------
> 
> This type of substitution goes for a very simple templating system.
> 
> Best Regards
> Mirko
> 