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HTML Files With Python

The document explains how to create and view HTML files using Python, highlighting Python's versatility and readability. It provides step-by-step instructions for generating an HTML file, viewing its source using the codecs library, and displaying it in a web browser with the webbrowser module. The examples demonstrate the practical application of Python in web development by creating a simple HTML document and opening it in a browser.

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HTML Files With Python

The document explains how to create and view HTML files using Python, highlighting Python's versatility and readability. It provides step-by-step instructions for generating an HTML file, viewing its source using the codecs library, and displaying it in a web browser with the webbrowser module. The examples demonstrate the practical application of Python in web development by creating a simple HTML document and opening it in a browser.

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Web Development : Creating and Viewing HTML files with Python

Python is one of the most versatile programming languages. It emphasizes code


readability with extensive use of white space. It comes with the support of a vast
collection of libraries which serve for various purposes, making our programming
experience smoother and enjoyable.
Python programs are used for:
 Connecting with databases and performing backend development.
 Making web applications.
 Writing effective system scripts.
 And especially in data science and artificial intelligence.
With this said, let us see how we can use python programs to generate HTML files as
output. This is very effective for those programs which are automatically creating
hyperlinks and graphic entities.
1. Creating an HTML file in python
 We will be storing HTML tags in a multi-line Python string and saving the contents to
a new file.
 This file will be saved with a .html extension rather than a .txt extension.
Note: We would be omitting the standard <!DOCTYPE HTML> declaration!
Python3
# to open/create a new html file in the write mode
f = open('sample.html', 'w')

# the html code which will go in the file GFG.html


html_template = """<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Welcome To DCRUST</h2>

<p>Default code has been loaded into the


Editor.</p>

</body>
</html>
"""

# writing the code into the file


f.write(html_template)

# close the file


f.close()
The above program will create an HTML file:
2. Viewing the HTML source file
In order to display the HTML file as a python output, we will be using the codecs library.
This library is used to open files which have a certain encoding. It takes a
parameter encoding which makes it different from the built-in open() function. The
open() function does not contain any parameter to specify the file encoding, which most
of the time makes it difficult for viewing files which are not ASCII but UTF-8.
Python3

# import module
import codecs

# to open/create a new html file in the write mode


f = open('sample.html', 'w')

# the html code which will go in the file sample.html


html_template = """
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>Hello World! </p>
</body>
</html>
"""
# writing the code into the file
f.write(html_template)

# close the file


f.close()

# viewing html files: below code creates a codecs.StreamReaderWriter


object
file = codecs.open("sample.html", 'r', "utf-8")

# using .read method to view the html


# code from our object
print(file.read())

Output:

3. Viewing the HTML web file


In Python, webbrowser module provides a high-level interface which allows displaying
Web-based documents to users. The webbrowser module can be used to launch a
browser in a platform-independent manner as shown below:
Python3

# import module
import webbrowser
# open html file
webbrowser.open('sample.html')

Output:
True

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