Generating HTML from python

[Philippe C. Martin]

Thanks

Kent Johnson wrote:

> Philippe C. Martin wrote:
>> 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 need to
>> have a title followed by lines of text that do not look too ugly. If
>> possible I would like to use an existing module.
>> 
>> Q1) Is there such a module ?
>> Q2) Is my approach fairly good ?
> 
> There are many ways to do this. The simplest is just to mix HTML and
> Python code in your own module, as Thomas has shown. This is quick and
> easy to do but IMO it doesn't scale well to large pages or large number of
> pages; the mix of raw HTML and Python code is hard to work with.
> 
> This page lists many alternatives:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming
> 
> The interesting categories from that page:
> "Templating Engines" provide a way to describe the HTML that is
> more-or-less independent of the code. They vary widely in style. If you
> want a lot of control over the generated HTML you probably want to use one
> of these.
> 
> "HTML Shorthand Processors" provide an alternate way to specify markup and
> a program to convert the markup to HTML. reStructuredText is in this
> category. To use one of these you would still have to generate the
> alternate markup in your program similar to the simple HTML method.
> 
> "HTML Generation class libraries" are libraries that make it easier to
> create HTML programmatically. This can be a good approach if the HTML is
> simple. I guess you can add many Python XML libraries to this category as
> well; for example you could use ElementTree to generate a model of an
> XHTML page and output it.
> 
> Choosing within the categories depends a lot on personal preference, you
> just have to find a package whose style you like and whose features fit
> your needs.
> 
> HTH,
> Kent