Speeding up table generation

[Lenny Self]

Thanks.  That worked wonders.  7 seconds to under 1 second.  Amazing.

Lenny Self
lenny at squiggie.com

"William Park" <parkw at better.net> wrote in message
news:20000309130738.B5649 at better.net...
> Try putting your strings into a list, then at the end concatenate the
> items.  Eg.
>     a = ['<table>']
>     a.append('<td>...</td>')
>     ...
>     a.append('</table>')
>     print string.join(a)
>
> --William
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:37:08AM -0800, Lenny Self wrote:
> > Hello.  I am rather new to Python and programming in general.  I have
> > created th following function in order to display the contents of a
query
> > from a MySQL database in an HTML form.  With the number of records I am
> > working with the table building portion of this function takes quite
some
> > time ( 7 - 10 seconds).  7 to 10 seconds isn't all that bad but it's
> > possible the database will grow quite a bit and displaying all of the
> > records could take quite a while.  Does anyone have any suggestion for
me
> > that might help speed this function up?
> >
> > I'd really appriciate some help
> >
> > Lenny Self
> > lenny at squiggie.com
> >
> > ### Code Below ###
> >
> > import os
> > import sys
> > import MySQL
> >
> > # Connecting to database server
> > try:
> >     dbhandle = MySQL.connect('dbserver,'login','passwd')
> >     try:
> >             # selecting database
> >             dbhandle.selectdb('database')
> >     except:
> >             print 'Could not find database'
> >             sys.exit()
> > except:
> >     print 'Could not connect to server'
> >     sys.exit()
> >
> > # Querying database for column names
> > account_columns = dbhandle.do('show columns from table)
> > # Querying database for body of table
> > accounts = dbhandle.do('select * from table)
> >
> > # Creating table
> > table = '<table><TR>'
> > a = 0
> > # Creating column names in table
> > while a < len(account_columns):
> >     table = table + '<TD>' + account_columns[a][0] + '</TD>'
> >     a = a + 1
> > b = 0
> > # Creating body of table by going though each record of the query
> > while b < len(accounts):
> >     table = table + '</TR><TR>'
> >     c = 0
> >     # Going each cell of each record to add to table
> >     while c < len(accounts[b]):
> >         table = table + '<TD>' + `accounts[b][c]` + '</TD>'
> >         c = c + 1
> >     b = b + 1
> > table = table + '</TABLE>'
> > print table
> >
> >
> >
> >
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