[Tutor] update html pages using python

[Alan Gauld]

"pedro" <pedrooconnell at gmail.com> wrote

> Hi, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction as 
> far as the best way to use python to update html. 

There are a number of modules in the standard library that can help 
but the best known module for this is BeautifulSoup which you have 
to download - try Google.

There are a couple of others and all of them are better than trying 
to do it using normal text manipulation or regex...

> kind of thing well. Ultimately I want to set up a page with a table of 
> thumbnail images corresponding to sequences each with their own colour 
> coding indicating status.

That should be fairly straightforward with any of the html parser modules 
available

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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