Jonathan Bowlas wrote in
news:mailman.562.1161001625.11739.python-list at python.org in
comp.lang.python:
> Hi listers,
>> I've written this little script to generate some html but I cannot get
> it to convert to a string so I can perform a replace() on the >,
> < characters that get returned.
>> from StringIO import StringIO
>> def generator_file(rsspath,titleintro,tickeropt):
> scripter=StringIO()
> scripter.write('<script type="text/javascript">\n')
> scripter.write('new rss_ticker(%s, %s, %s)\n' % (rsspath,
> titleintro, tickeropt))
> scripter.write('</script>\n')
> return scripter.getvalue()
>> I tried adding this:
>> scripter = scripter.replace("<", "<")
> scripter = scripter.replace(">", ">")
>> But obviously replace() isn't an attribute of StringIO so I guess I
> need to convert it to a string first, can someone please advise how I
> can do this?
>
How strange, you are already "converting" to a string in the return
line (the call to the getvalue() method), so:
scripter = scripter.getvalue().replace("<", "<")
scripter = scripter.replace(">", ">")
return scripter
should do what you want.
Rob.
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