The suggestion to use StringIO to make a string have the same
interface
as a file works perfect in my situation. Here is now the working
result
(just in case it is useful to anyone) part of this is still a definite
hack and suggestions for improvement are certainly appreciated.
Want:
have an easily maintainable file containing homework assignments, but
have it nicely formatted on my webpage.
Solution:
have a file with due dates and assignments as follows:
Mon Jan 28
1.1: 1,2,3
(at this point only the indentation is taken into account).
Then use the following script (setting some variables and server,
login, and passwd for the ftp connection):
#!/usr/bin/env python
homeworktxt = "homework.txt"
homeworkhtml = []
import sys
import ftplib
import StringIO
Indent = ' '
StartTable = '<table border="1" width="100%"><tr><td>Due</
td><td>Assignment</td></tr>\n<tr>'
EndTable = '</table>'
StartTitle = Indent + '<tr>\n' + Indent + Indent +'<td valign="top">'
EndTitle = Indent + Indent + '</td>\n' + Indent + Indent + '<td>'
BeforeItems = Indent + Indent + Indent + '<table>'
AfterItems = Indent + Indent + Indent + '</table>\n' + Indent +
Indent + '</td>\n' + Indent + '</tr>'
StartItem = Indent + Indent + Indent + Indent + '<tr><td>'
EndItem = Indent + Indent + Indent + Indent + '</td></tr>'
#if 1 >=len (sys.argv):
# print "Need an filename as an argument"
# print sys.argv[0] + " <filename>"
#else:
hw = open (homeworktxt).readlines()
Last = 0 # 0: at the start, 1: just printed an item, 2: just
printed a title
#print StartTable
homeworkhtml.append(StartTable)
for x in hw:
if ' ' == x[0]:
if 2 == Last:
homeworkhtml.append(BeforeItems)
homeworkhtml.append(StartItem)
homeworkhtml.append(Indent + Indent + Indent + Indent + Indent +
x.strip())
homeworkhtml.append(EndItem)
Last = 1
elif '#' != x[0]:
if 1 == Last:
homeworkhtml.append(AfterItems)
homeworkhtml.append(StartTitle)
homeworkhtml.append(Indent + Indent + Indent + x.strip())
homeworkhtml.append(EndTitle)
Last = 2
# else :
# homeworkhtml.append('COMMENT')
# homeworkhtm
if 1 == Last:
homeworkhtml.append(AfterItems)
homeworkhtml.append(EndTable)
for i in range(0,len(homeworkhtml)):
homeworkhtml[i] = homeworkhtml[i] + '\n'
homeworkhtmlfile = StringIO.StringIO()
homeworkhtmlfile.writelines(homeworkhtml)
homeworkhtmlfile.seek(0)
# open connection to the server
ftp = ftplib.FTP('server', 'login', 'password' )
# go to location of root of website on server
ftp.cwd('httpdocs')
# put the contends of a file
filename = "test.html"
ftp.storlines("STOR " + filename, homeworkhtmlfile)
# quite the connection
ftp.quit()
This will result in an html file that you can include (say with
php include) into a webpage displaying a table. Examples of the
result are currently on my webpage (www.bartk.nl/teach.php ) (if
you read this much later look on the waybackmachine).
Again, thanks for the suggestions,
Best,
Bart
PS: apologies for the mixing of spaces and tabs. I had a computer
crash and have not yet corrected the settings. So this is a
combination of default behavior and my preferred settings.
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