I need a starter ptr writing python embedded in html.

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> >> I'm ok in python but I haven't done too much with web pages. I have a web page
> >> that is hand written in html that has about 1000 entries in a table and I want
> >> to convert the table from entries like this
>
> >>     <tr>
> >>       <td> Some Date String </td>
> >>       <td> SomeTag </td>
> >>       <td>
> >>         <a href="localSubdir"> A Title </a>
> >>       </td>
> >>       <td>
> >>         <a href="http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html"
> >>           Click
> >>         </a>
> >>       </td>
> >>       <td> Some Comment </td>
> >>     </tr>
>
> >> to
>
> >>    SomePythonCall('Some Date String',
> >>                 'SomeTag',
> >>                 'localSubdir',
> >>                 "http://www.example.com/remote/path/something.html",
> >>                 'Click',
> >>                 'Some Comment')
>
> >> Can someone tell me what I should look at to do this? Is mod_python where I
> >> should start or are there things that are better?
> > Have a look athttp://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/.
>
> Thanks. But what I'm not seeing is any example of how to make this allowed to
> generate the html at run time.
Oh, I misunderstood you. You probably want one of the templating
systems out there, such as Mako, Jinja2, Cheetah, ...

Maybe http://cherrypy.org/wiki/intro/1 will be of help.

All the best,
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