html renderer

[Michele Simionato]

I am looking for a textual html renderer (such as lynx) to be
called from a Python program. The only needed functionality is
the following: passing to it a string it should show the html file at
the first match of the string (it does not seem obvious to do it with
lynx, please correct me if I am wrong). Essentially, I want to be able to
to browse rapidly over a bunch of html files. Fancy graphics is not
important, easy of use is very important. Portable solutions are
better, but a Linux only solution would be good enough.

Any pointer?

TIA,

Michele

[Thomas Guettler]

Re: html renderer

Am Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:10:04 -0800 schrieb Michele Simionato:
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> I am looking for a textual html renderer (such as lynx) to be
> called from a Python program. The only needed functionality is
> the following: passing to it a string it should show the html file at
> the first match of the string (it does not seem obvious to do it with
> lynx, please correct me if I am wrong). Essentially, I want to be able to
> to browse rapidly over a bunch of html files. Fancy graphics is not
> important, easy of use is very important. Portable solutions are
> better, but a Linux only solution would be good enough.[/color]

Hi,

may be this helps:

# untested
fd=os.popen("ly nx -dump foo.html")
content=fd.read ()
fd.close()
idx=content.fin d("yourtext")
print content[idx-20:idx+20]

thomas

[John J. Lee]

Re: html renderer

mis6@pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) writes:
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> I am looking for a textual html renderer (such as lynx) to be[/color]
[...][color=blue]
> important, easy of use is very important. Portable solutions are
> better, but a Linux only solution would be good enough.[/color]

Just a note, since people seem to assume otherwise: lynx is
cross-platform :-)


John