On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:57:58 -0800, Bart Kastermans wrote:
> I have written a little program that takes as input a text file,
...
> Expected since homeworkhtml is in fact not a file. Is there a way to
> convert this list to a file object without first writing it to disc and
> then opening the resulting file?
The StringIO module is your friend, together with a couple of basic
Python techniques.
>>> alist = ["<table>\n", " <tr>\n",
... " <td>", "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!",
... "</td>\n", " </tr>\n", "</table>\n"]
>>> print ''.join(alist) # but strings don't have a readlines method...
<table>
<tr>
<td>Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!</td>
</tr>
</table>
>>>
>>> f = StringIO.StringIO()
>>> f.writelines(alist)
>>> f.getvalue()
'<table>\n <tr>\n <td>Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!</td>\n
</tr>\n</table>\n'
>>> f.seek(0) # don't forget to reset the file pointer!
>>> print f.read() # also has readlines
<table>
<tr>
<td>Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!</td>
</tr>
</table>
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Steven
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