Generating HTML from python

Thu Jun 9 14:35:11 EDT 2005

I looked at HTMLGen a while ago- I didn't see what the advantage was.
I wrote soem code similar to the example above, to generate a page..
It worked out fine.

However, I want to add HTML ouput to many of my other python programs,
and I don't want to re-write this for each program. So some higher
level of abastraction is needed, but I don't know how just yet.

HTMLGen is no longer maintained, so I don't know what the best choice
is.

If you know the basics of HTMl, you can write a simple class to write
the html, and just call a method from your program, so your app does
not have any HTML in it.

Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> I'm currently playing with HTMLGen (great but not in Python distrib ...) and
> it look very good - Yet your code example looks simple enough for me to
> look at that alternative.
>
>
>
>
> Thomas Guettler wrote:
>
> > Am Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:43:19 +0000 schrieb Philippe C. Martin:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I wish to use an easy way to generate reports from wxPython and feel
> >> wxHtmlEasyPrinting could be a good solution.
> >>
> >> I now need to generate the HTML wxHtmlEasyPrinting can print
> >
> > I don't know wxPython, but generating HTML is very easy.
> >
> > Some people say mixing HTML and programming code is not good.
> >
> > But if you want to create dynamic pages with more logic than HTML
> > this is the best solution.
> >
> > Example: Multiplication Table
> >
> > rows=[]
> > heading=[]
> > for i in range(1, 11):
> >     heading.append('<th bgcolor="grey">%s</th>' % i)
> >     cols=[]
> >     for j in range(1, 11):
> >         cols.append('<td align="right">%s</td>' % (i*j))
> >     row='<tr><th bgcolor="grey">%s</th>%s</tr>' % (i, ''.join(cols))
> >     rows.append(row)
> > html="""
> >  <html>
> >   <head><title>Multiplication Table</title></head>
> >   <body>
> >    <table border="1">
> >     <tr>
> >      <th> </th> %s
> >     </tr>
> >     %s
> >    </table>
> >   </body>
> >  </html> """ % (''.join(heading), ''.join(rows))
> >
> > I guess this looks more ugly in most template languages.
> > 
> >  HTH,
> >    Thomas
> >