translate txt into HTML

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Tue Jan 21 13:11:18 EST 2003


Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> Natacha wrote:
> > 
> > We have to create a program allowing to go to seek two textual files
> > bruts(.txt), but we would like to translate them into HTML.
> > 
> > we think that a parser should be used, but we do not know how to make!
> 
> To help you clarify your requirements, I offer this first version which
> meets your requirements as stated.  What aspect of this do you find
> insufficient?  If you can explain that, we can help you with a more
> suitable solution, perhaps involving the StructuredText concept...
> 
> text = open('afile.txt').read()
> htmlFile = open('afile.html', 'w')
> print >>htmlFile, '<html><head><title>A file</title></head>'
> print >>htmlFile, '<body><pre>%s</pre></body></html>' % text
> htmlFile.close()

You've got a bug. Try this for the second print:

print >>htmlFile, '<body><pre>%s</pre></body></html>' % text.replace('<', '<')

        <mike
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