[Tutor] Printing output from Python program to HTML

Tue May 10 17:48:47 CEST 2011

Thanks, very simple but I missed that because it was supposed be in HTML
code!

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Spyros Charonis <s.charonis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a Python script that extracts some text from a database file and
> annotates another file,
> writing the results to a new file. Because the files I am annotating are
> ASCII,
> I am very restricted as to how I can annotate the text, and I would like to
> instead
> write the results to HTML so that I can annotate my file in more visually
> effective ways,e.g. by changing text color
> where appropriate.  My program extracts text from a database, reads a file
> that is to be annotated, and writes those
> annotations to a newly created (.htm) file
> I include the following headers at the beginning of my program:
>
> print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n"
> print '<html>'
> print '<body>'
>
> The part of the program that finds the entry I want and produces the
> annotation is about
> 80 lines down and goes as follow:
>
> file_rmode = open('/myfolder/alignfiles/query1, 'r')
> file_amode = open('/myfolder/alignfiles/query2, 'a+')
>
> file1 = motif_file.readlines() # file has been created in code not shown
> file2 = file_rmode.readlines()
>
> for line in seqalign:
>    for item in finalmotifs:
>        item = item.strip().upper()
>        if item in line:
>           newline = line.replace(item, "<p> <font color = "red"> item
> </font> </p>") # compiler complains here about the word "red"
>           # sys.stdout.write(newline)
>           align_file_amode.write(line)
>
> print '</body>'
> print '</html>'
>
> motif_file.close()
> align_file_rmode.close()
> align_file_amode.close()
>
> The Python compiler complains on the line I try to change the font color,
> saying "invalid syntax".  Perhaps I
> need to import the cgi module to make this a full CGI program? (I have
> configured my Apache server). Or alternatively, my HTML code is messed up,
> but I
> am pretty sure this is more or less a simple task.
>
> I am working in Python 2.6.5. Many thanks in advance
>
> Spyros
>
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