Writing to HTML through Python without import os? (Python 3.8 / Windows)

Question

Basically, what I want to know is, is there a simpler way to write this that does not require the import os module? I want to create a simple webpage from Python using an HTML file. And while this does exactly what I want, I cannot seem to come up with a simple/basic way, or a way that does not involve the import os module.

import os

name = input("Enter your name here: ")
persona = input("Write a sentence or two describing yourself: ")

with open('mypage.html', 'rt') as file:
    with open('temp_mypage.html', 'wt') as new:
        for line in file:
            line = line.replace('some_name', name)
            line = line.replace('some_persona', persona)
            new.write(line)

os.remove('mypage.html')
os.rename('temp_mypage.html', 'mypage.html')

HTML code:

<html>
<head>
<body>
<center>
<h1>
some_name
# input into the file
</h1>
</center>
<hr />
some_persona
<hr />
</body>
</html>

Because I did not realize that my instructor did not want us to use import os and now I am trying to figure out how to rewrite it. — carson
– carson, Commented Nov 19, 2020 at 2:04

avarice · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-19 02:06:59Z

1

You don't need os module and temporary file, instead you can just add to a variable and write back

name = input("Enter your name here: ")
persona = input("Write a sentence or two describing yourself: ")
new = ""

with open('mypage.html', 'rt') as file:
        for line in file:
            line = line.replace('some_name', name)
            line = line.replace('some_persona', persona)
            new += line.strip()

with open('mypage.html','w') as f:
        f.write(new)

And for tasks like this it is not the recommended way. Use a web framework like Flask (Django will be top heavy for this simple one), CGI scripts are now outdated

edited Nov 19, 2020 at 2:06

answered Nov 19, 2020 at 2:05

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user13566917 Over a year ago

Oh... thats what he wanted. Well, I thought he was to activate the website to a web page or something. I am a dumb boi

carson Over a year ago

Ah, I see, this works really well! Before I uploaded the working code, I was trying to open it in writer mode with the "for line" statement, but it kept telling me it was not a readable object and that threw me off. For the most part this makes sense, and it does work, can you possibly explain the ' new = "" ' line to me please?

avarice Over a year ago

new="" creates a new empty string variable and also to both read/write from a file open in rw mode, please upvote (click ^ looking button) and accept (click big check mark), welcome :-)

carson Over a year ago

Oh okay, alright now I understand it a lot better. This was an amazing fix! Thanks man! I appreciate it

carson Over a year ago

@WasifHasan I did not to think to ask before, and I hope it is not a bother, but is it possible to loop this program? And what I mean by that is, how can I run the program over and over without ceating a new html file every time, because as a test run, I entered JK as the input in both fields and now my html file is permanently set to JK. If that makes sense. I am unsure of how to google this question..

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