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Neemaximo
Neemaximo

Reputation: 20831

Reading a text file with new lines in html with python

I have a text file that I want to read in my cgi script that will appear with a new line in between each line but it is just coming up as one huge wall of text. I cant figure out where to put '\n'. I have tried multiple locations but none work. Here is my code.

cgitb.enable()

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

keyword = form.getvalue('keyword')

f = open('%s.txt' %keyword, 'r')

print 'Content-type: text/html\r\n\r'
print '<html>'
print '<title> keyword + "tweets" </title>'
print f.readlines()
print '</html>'

f.close()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2276

Answers (2)

holdenweb
holdenweb

Reputation: 37103

If you really want the output to appear as plain text then it's much easier to simply set the value of the Content-Type header to "text/plain" instead of "text/html" and then most browsers will simply render your text without the need for interspersed HTML.

Please note that if you DO want to generate HTML you should incude an opening and closing <BODY> tag around the file contents (unless they happen to be present in the file).

Upvotes: 0

Amadan
Amadan

Reputation: 198426

By default, HTML treats newline characters as if they were whitespace. Convert those into <br> elements, or wrap your text in a <pre> element, or make sure white-space handling in CSS is appropriate.

Also, print f.readlines.join('\n') or print f.read() (or print f.readlines().join('<br>') if you go with the first choice); otherwise you should be getting the repr for the list.

Upvotes: 3

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