Hi all,
Yeah, I should've written this in functions from the get go, but I
thought it would be a simple script. :/
I'll come back to that script when I've had some sleep, my son was
recently born and it's amazing how dramatically lack of sleep affects
my acuity. But, I want to figure out what's going wrong.
That said, the re path is bearing fruit. I love the method finditer(),
as I can reduce my overly complicated string methods from my original
code to
x=file("toolkit.txt",'r')
s=x.read()
x.close()
appList=[]
regExIter=reObj.finditer(s) #Here's a re obj I compiled earlier.
for item in regExIter:
text=gettextFunc(item.group()) #Will try and stick to string method
for this, but I'll see.
if not text:
text="Default" #Will give a text value for the href, so some
lucky human can change it
url=geturlFunc(item.group()) # The simpler the better, and so far
re has been the simplest
if not url:
href = '"" #This will delete the applet, as there are applet's
acting as placeholders
else:
href='<a "%s">%s</a>' % (url, text)
appList.append(item.span(), href)
appList.reverse()
for ((start, end), href) in appList:
codeSt=codeSt.replace(codeSt[start:end], href)
Of course, that's just a rought draft, but it seems a whole lot
simpler to me. S'pose code needs a modicum of planning.
Oh, and I d/led BeautifulSoup, but I couldn't work it right, so I
tried re, and it suits my needs.
Thanks for all the help.
Regards,
Liam Clarke
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:53:46 -0800, Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Liam Clarke wrote:
>
> > So, I'm going to throw caution to the wind, and try an re approach. It
> > can't be any more unwieldy and ugly than what I've got going at the
> > moment.
>
> If you're going to try a new approach, I'd strongly suggest using a
> proper html/xml parser instead of re's. You'll almost certainly have
> an easier time using a tool that's designed for your specific problem
> domain than you will trying to force a more general tool to work.
> Since you're specifically trying to find (and replace) certain html
> tags and attributes, and that's exactly what html parsers *do*, well,
> the conclusions seems obvious (to me at least). ;)
>
> There are lots of html parsing tools available in Python (though I've
> never needed one myself). I've heard lots of good things about
> BeautifulSoup...
>
>
>
> Jeff Shannon
> Technician/Programmer
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