Convert StringIO to string

[Jonathan Bowlas]

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("&lt;", "<")
scripter = scripter.replace("&gt;", ">")

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?

Cheers

Jon

[skryskalla]

Jonathan Bowlas wrote:

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?

StringIO objects are file-like objects, so you need to use read or
readlines to get the string data out of it (just like a regular file).
Before reading remember to seek back to the beginning to get all of the
data ("Be kind, rewind!"):

>>import StringIO
s = StringIO.StringIO()
s.write("hello world\n")
s.seek(0)
s.read()

'hello world\n'

>>s = StringIO.StringIO()
s.write("hello world\n")
s.read()

''

[Rob Williscroft]

Jonathan Bowlas wrote in
news:ma**************************************@pyth on.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 &gt;,
&lt; 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("&lt;", "<")
scripter = scripter.replace("&gt;", ">")

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("&lt;", "<")
scripter = scripter.replace("&gt;", ">")
return scripter

should do what you want.

Rob.
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