Jonothan Farr, Thanks very much! I am new to Python. I coded my first Zope app in entirely DTML, so now I'm moving deeper. That's a handy thing to have. All my best, Jason Spisak 444@hiretechs.com

Try using a StringIO object as your file.

import htmllib import formatter from cStringIO import StringIO

def index(self, html): file = StringIO() fmtr = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(file)) p = htmllib.HTMLParser(fmtr) p.feed(html) file.seek(0) return file.read()

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Spisak" <444@hiretechs.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:47 AM Subject: [Zope] Fighting htmllib in external method

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Howdy Zopsters,

I want to catalog some html files but I want to strip the html tags out. htmlparser does a good job of that, but when I try to acces that from an external method, I run into trouble.

import htmllib import formatter

def index(self, html): fmtr = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(file)) p = htmllib.HTMLParser(fmtr) return p.feed(html)

Since the DumbWriter uses stdout, this returns None. When I try to write to a temporary file, or pipe I get 'bad file descriptor' errors because of the way external method function I guess. Any help would really be appreciated.

All my best,

Jason Spisak 444@hiretechs.com

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