Dr. Who wrote:
> I have a tool that outputs data in either html or text output.
>
> Currently I'm writing chucnks like:
>
> if html:
> print '<html><body bgcolor="FFFFCC">'
> print '<table border="1" bgcolor="CCCCFF" width="800">'
> print '<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>'
> print 'Differences %s: %s' % (htypestr, lbl1)
> if html:
> ...
I'd create two Formatter classes, one for HTML and one for text. It
looks like, in your case, the HTML one should inherit from the text one.
Something like:
py> class TextFormatter(object):
... def print_differences(self, htypestr, lbll):
... print 'Differences %s: %s' % (htypestr, lbll)
...
py> class HTMLFormatter(TextFormatter):
... def print_differences(self, htypestr, lbll):
... print '<html><body bgcolor="FFFFCC">'
... print '<table border="1" bgcolor="CCCCFF" width="800">'
... print '<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>'
... super(HTMLFormatter, self).print_differences(htypestr, lbll)
... print '</h2></td></tr></table></body></html>'
...
py> formatter = TextFormatter()
py> formatter.print_differences('test', 'one')
Differences test: one
py> formatter = HTMLFormatter()
py> formatter.print_differences('test', 'one')
<html><body bgcolor="FFFFCC">
<table border="1" bgcolor="CCCCFF" width="800">
<tr><td colspan="2"><h2>
Differences test: one
</h2></td></tr></table></body></html>
Using this strategy, you would replace all your print statements with
calls to a formatter object. Which formatter you use would be
determined wherever you currently set 'html' to True or False.
HTH,
STeVe
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