The problem is a problem of standardization, indeed. There plenty of recipes to do the same job, I just would like to use a blessed one (I am teaching a Python course and I do not know what to recommend to my students).
FWIW, here is a my version of the recipe (stripped down to the bare essentials) .def makeattr(dict_or_list_of_pairs): . dic = dict(dict_or_list_of_pairs) . return " ".join("%s=%r" % (k, dic[k]) for k in dic) .class HTMLTag(object): . def __getattr__(self, name): . def tag(value, **attr): . """value can be a string or a sequence of strings.""" . if hasattr(value, "__iter__"): # is iterable . value = " ".join(value) . return "<%s %s>%s</%s>\n" % (name, makeattr(attr), value, name) . return tag # example: .html = HTMLTag() .tableheader = ["field1", "field2"] .tablebody = [["a1", "a2"], . ["b1", "b2"]] .html_header = [html.tr(html.th(el) for el in tableheader)] .html_table = [html.tr(html.td(el) for el in row) for row in tablebody] .print html.table(html_header + html_table) Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list