[Tutor] Mad Villain Seeks Source Review.

Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:50:08 -0500

Phase One of My Diabolical Plan to Reduce the 
World Wide Web to 256 Grayscale seems to have
been delayed...

import re

def namedict():
    namedcolors = {'maroon' : '262626',
                   'green' : '4b4b4b', 
                   'red' : '4c4c4c', 
                   'navy' : '0e0e0e', 
                   'purple' : '343434', 
                   'lime' : '969696', 
                   'blue' : '1c1c1c', 
                   'magenta' : '686868', 
                   'olive' : '717171',
                   'yellow' : 'e2e2e2', 
                   'teal' : '595959',
                   'cyan' : 'b2b2b2',}
    return namedcolors

def namerepl( match ):
    # Adjusts various forms that may be taken
    # by a match in the following function so
    # as to return the dictionary value.  
    # Works.
    namedcolors = namedict()
    match = match.lower()
    catch =""
    for sstr in match:
        if sstr.isalpha():
            catch = catch+sstr
    return namedcolors[catch]

def firstpass(line):
    # Reduce dictionary keys into a regex and
    # substitute using preceding function.
    # Attribute Error: lower.  Hmph.  Now I'll
    # have to settle for hijacking a spacecraft.
    namedcolors = namedict()
    colors = namedcolors.keys()
    crush = lambda x,y: x+'|'+ y
    colorsearch = reduce(crush, colors)
    colorsearch = '[=][\s]?['+colorsearch+']'
    colorsearch = re.compile(colorsearch, re.I)
    line = re.sub(colorsearch, namerepl, line)
    return line

teststring = "<BODY BGCOLOR='Magenta'TEXT= Yellow>"
firstpass(teststring)  

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