html code generation

[Chris Colbert]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> use a deque with a '<td>junk</td>' as each element
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, George Trojan <george.trojan at noaa.gov>wrote:
>
>> I need an advice on table generation. The table is essentially a fifo,
>> containing about 200 rows. The rows are inserted every few minutes or so.
>> The simplest solution is to store row data per line and write directly html
>> code:
>> line = "<tr><td>value1</td><td>value2>... </tr>"
>> each run of the program would read the previous table into a list of
>> lines, insert the first row and drop the last one, taking care of table
>> header and trailer.
>> Is there a more classy solution?
>>
>> George
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>
 In [1]: from collections import deque

In [2]: a = deque(['<td>foo</td>', '<td>bar</td>'])

In [3]: ''.join(a)
Out[3]: '<td>foo</td><td>bar</td>'

In [4]: a.popleft()
Out[4]: '<td>foo</td>'

In [5]: a.append('<td>baz</td>')

In [6]: ''.join(a)
Out[6]: '<td>bar</td><td>baz</td>'
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