Thanks Kent Johnson wrote:
> Philippe C. Martin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wish to use an easy way to generate reports from wxPython and feel >> wxHtmlEasyPrinting could be a good solution. >> >> I now need to generate the HTML wxHtmlEasyPrinting can print: I need to >> have a title followed by lines of text that do not look too ugly. If >> possible I would like to use an existing module. >> >> Q1) Is there such a module ? >> Q2) Is my approach fairly good ? > > There are many ways to do this. The simplest is just to mix HTML and > Python code in your own module, as Thomas has shown. This is quick and > easy to do but IMO it doesn't scale well to large pages or large number of > pages; the mix of raw HTML and Python code is hard to work with. > > This page lists many alternatives: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming > > The interesting categories from that page: > "Templating Engines" provide a way to describe the HTML that is > more-or-less independent of the code. They vary widely in style. If you > want a lot of control over the generated HTML you probably want to use one > of these. > > "HTML Shorthand Processors" provide an alternate way to specify markup and > a program to convert the markup to HTML. reStructuredText is in this > category. To use one of these you would still have to generate the > alternate markup in your program similar to the simple HTML method. > > "HTML Generation class libraries" are libraries that make it easier to > create HTML programmatically. This can be a good approach if the HTML is > simple. I guess you can add many Python XML libraries to this category as > well; for example you could use ElementTree to generate a model of an > XHTML page and output it. > > Choosing within the categories depends a lot on personal preference, you > just have to find a package whose style you like and whose features fit > your needs. > > HTH, > Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
