Re: % symbol in python

From	alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: % symbol in python
Date	2014-10-29 15:25 +1000
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On 29/10/2014 2:41 PM, satishmlmlml@gmail.com wrote:
 > kindly let me know what is $ROWS$ along with % symbol's meaning

It's a token, a static value added to the template to indicate where 
additional data will be added.

So $ROW$ in this section:

>   <table>
>   <tr><th>key<td><input type=text name=key value="%(key)s">
>   $ROWS$
 >   </table>

Will be replaced by whatever rowshtml contains at this point:

>   replyhtml = replyhtml.replace('$ROWS$', rowshtml)

Of note: the template section above has opening tags for <tr>, <th> and 
<td> but no closing ones. It's not valid html.

Also I don't think this is doing what you think it is:

 > rowhtml = '<tr><th>%s<td><input type=text name=%s value="%%(%s)s">\n'
 > rowshtml = ''
 > for fieldname in fieldnames:
 >  rowshtml += (rowhtml % ((fieldname, ) * 3))
 >  replyhtml = replyhtml.replace('$ROWS$', rowshtml)

After the first fieldname ('name' in this case), the token $ROWS$ will 
be replaced by the string :

     '<tr><th>name<td><input type=text name=name value="%%(name)s">\n'.

On the second iteration of the loop, when fieldname is 'age', rowshtml 
will equal:

      '<tr><th>name<td><input type=text name=name 
value="%%(name)s">\n<tr><th>age<td><input type=text name=age 
value="%%(age)s">\n'

...but nothing will happen with it as $ROWS$ has already been replaced 
during the first time through the loop. Either the `replyhtml = ...` 
line is mis-indented or the code is terribly broken.

Unless this is for homework, I highly recommend just using one of the 
many templating libraries that exist for Python, such as Jinja2.

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% symbol in python satishmlmlml@gmail.com - 2014-10-28 14:41 -0700
  Re: % symbol in python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-28 22:17 +0000
  Re:% symbol in python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-28 21:57 -0400
    Re: % symbol in python satishmlmlml@gmail.com - 2014-10-28 20:51 -0700
      Re: % symbol in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 15:02 +1100
        Re: % symbol in python satishmlmlml@gmail.com - 2014-10-28 21:41 -0700
          Re: % symbol in python alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-10-29 15:25 +1000
            Re: % symbol in python satishmlmlml@gmail.com - 2014-10-28 22:48 -0700
              Re: % symbol in python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-29 08:40 +0000

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