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Printing HTML in Python CGI

I've been teaching myself python and cgi scripting, and I know that your basic script looks like

#!/usr/local/bin/python
import cgi
print "Content-type: text/html"
print 
print "<HTML>"
print  "<BODY>"
print "HELLO WORLD!"
print "</BODY>"
print "</HTML>"

My question is, if I have a big HTML file I want to display in python (it had lines and lines of code and sone JS in it) do I have to manually add 'print' in front of each line and turn "s into \" , etc? Or is there a method or script that could convert it for me?

Thanks!

Solution

  • Python supports multiline strings, so you can print out your text in one big blurb.

    print '''<html>
<head><title>My first Python CGI app</title></head>
<body>
<p>Hello, 'world'!</p>
</body>
</html>'''

    They support all string operations, including methods (.upper(), .translate(), etc.) and formatting (%), as well as raw mode (r prefix) and the u unicode prefix.