[Tutor] HTML Project--in plain text format i hope

Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:27:21 -0400

ok, maybe everyone can read this without any trouble now.  my original 
message was:

hey all,
i am working on a project with Python.  some of my friends have a email-list 
going around, and somebody writes a daily (well, almost daily) devotional 
and sends it to everyone.  i'm wanting to put all of these on a website, and 
i'm gonna use python to write the html files.  i've got most of what i want 
complete, but i can't figure out the rest.  all of the devotionals i have 
saved into a big text document, separated by a common string: "Date:" and 
then it displays the date, in the form of Month ##th, 2000.  (or "st" and 
"2001" in their respective places).  i want to create an actual HTML file in 
the following format:  month##.html (all lowercase, double digits for the 
numbers to keep them in order).  what i've got so far is the python script 
that prints the whole file to the stdout, and it inserts the headings with 
the appropriate dates.  another thing i want to do is have the script write 
in the paragraph tag (<p>) whenever there is two linebreaks.  would that be 
possible?  here is my script so far:

import sys
file=open('c:\windows\desktop\goodtext', 'r')
br="Date:"
for line in file.readlines():
if line[:5] != br:
     if line[:-1]=="\n":
  print "<p>", line,
     else:
  print line,
else:
  sys.stdout.write(line[5:])
  print '''<html>
<head>
<title>%s</title>
</head>
<BODY>
<center><h1>%s</h1></center>
''' %(line[5:], line[5:])

any suggestion?  thanks,
paul brown
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