Jonathan Bowlas wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 >, > < 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("<", "<") > scripter = scripter.replace(">", ">") > > 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("<", "<") scripter = scripter.replace(">", ">") return scripter should do what you want. Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list