Hello, I'd like to know if there is a basic HTML wrapper for Python, like TextWrapper but allowing the generation of HTML from strings or iterables of strings. Like: make_select = HTMLWrapper(tag='select class="eggs"', indent=' ') make_option = HTMLWrapper(tag='option') Applying this like: s = make_select([make_option('Option %d' % (i + 1), \ escape=False, strip=False) for i in range(3)]) should return s like (when printed): <select class="eggs"> <option>Option 1</option> <option>Option 2</option> <option>Option 3</option> </select> Vlad Tudorache
Hi Vlad, and welcome! On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:00:03PM +0100, Vlad Tudorache wrote:
This list is for proposing and discussing ideas for new syntax or functionality for the Python language, not for asking basic support questions. Are you are proposing that Python gets a HTML wrapper? If so, it is up to you to do your research first, so that you know the answer to your question before you propose the idea. You should be able to tell us what options are available as language features or third-party libraries. If you don't know the answer, there are many places you can ask, starting with Google and other search engines: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+html+generator and others such as Reddit's /r/learnpython subreddit, Stackoverflow, the Python-List mailing list, the Python IRC channel, and more. https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list news:comp.lang.python https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/ https://www.python.org/community/irc/ If you still have a proposal after doing your research, we're happy to hear it. Regards, Steven
This is very much the kind of thing that would belong in a library. There's probably more than one out there right now. In fact, way back when I started learning Python (almost 20 yrs ago!)), there was such a lib -- I think it was called HTMLgen. However, since then, most people have decided that templating is the way to accomplish this -- write the html with bits of code in in, and have it generate the final html. There are many template engines for/with Python. Having said that, I actually use an OO html generator as an assignment in my training: https://uwpce-pythoncert.github.io/PythonCertDevel/exercises/html_renderer.h... So you can write it yourself... Using the approach in that assignment, you would write your example as: selector = Selector(_class="eggs") for i in range(3): Selector.append(Option(f"Option {i}")) selector.render() -CHB On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 3:43 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
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