Problem combining python code and html

[Hansan]

Thanks for you reply and Help Fredrik Lundh

The change did remove the error message, and I can see what was wrong.
However there is now a new problem, the only thing that is displayed is one 
single character and that is: <

Do you or anyone else have a suggestion to what the cause to this new 
problem is ?

Thanks for your time




"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message 
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> Hansan wrote:
>
>> I used the same code they use for making the two display functions and 
>> the
>> same template for the html form. I even tried using the form template 
>> they
>> use too, but it still dosnt work. I will now show how the functions and
>> templates look like.
>>
>> The two display functions are:
>> def Display(Content):
>>     TemplateHandle = open(TemplateFile, "r")
>>     TemplateInput = TemplateHandle.read()
>>     TemplateHandle.close()
>>     BadTemplateException = "There was a problem with the HTML template."
>>     SubResult = re.subn("<!-- *** INSERT CONTENT HERE *** -->",
>> Content,TemplateInput)
>
> re.subn takes a regular expression, in which certain characters have
> special meanings.  for example, in
>
>    <!-- *** INSERT JWZ QUOTE HERE *** -->
>
> "*" is reserved character, which means "repeat preceeding expression".
>
> so "***" means repeating a repeated repeat, which makes very little
> sense, which is why the RE engine complains.
>
> changing
>
>>     SubResult = re.subn("<!-- *** INSERT CONTENT HERE *** -->",
>> Content,TemplateInput)
>
>    SubResult = TemplateInput.replace(
>            "<!-- *** INSERT CONTENT HERE *** -->",
>            Content
>    )
>
> should work better.
>
> </F>
>
>
>