Pretty Printing Like Tidy for HTML

[bsneddon]

On Jul 8, 10:59 am, j... at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote:
> David <dwarnol... at suddenlink.net> writes:
> > Is there a pretty printing utility for Python, something like Tidy for
> > HTML?
>
> > That will change:
>
> >         xp=self.uleft[0]+percentx*(self.xwidth)
>
> > To:
>
> >         xp = self.uleft[0] + percentx * (self.xwidth)
>
> > And other formatting issues.
>
> Googled and found these; no idea if they're any good (latter is
> commercial):
>
> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PythonTidy/1.11
>
> http://python.softalizer.com/
>
> See also:
>
> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/reindent.py?vie...
>
> John

I did this useing the BeautifulSoup module.
Used it on XML created by msWord which had no formating was
all on one line.

>>> import BeautifulSoup
>>> soupStr = open('c:/data/quotes.xml').read()
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(soupStr)
>>> pSoup = soup.prettify()
>>> outFile = open('c:/data/quotesTidy.xml','w')
>>> outFile.write(pSoup)
>>> outFile.close()