[Zope] Fighting htmllib in external method

[Jason Spisak]

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
> 
> 
> > 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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