On Oct 18, 1:55 am, Debajit Adhikary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing this little Python program which will pull values from a > database and generate some XHTML. > > I'm generating a <table> where I would like the alternate <tr>'s to be > > <tr class="Even"> > and > <tr class="Odd"> > > What is the best way to do this? >
from itertools import izip def toggle(start=True): flag = start while 1: flag = not flag yield flag CSS = ("even", "odd") HTML = '<tr class="%s"><td>%d</td><td>%s</td></tr>' result = [(1, 'One'), (2, 'two'), (3, 'Three'), (4, 'Four'), (5, 'Five')] for flag, (id, name) in izip(toggle(), result): print HTML % (CSS[flag], id, name) <tr class="even"><td>1</td><td>One</td></tr> <tr class="odd"><td>2</td><td>two</td></tr> <tr class="even"><td>3</td><td>Three</td></tr> <tr class="odd"><td>4</td><td>Four</td></tr> <tr class="even"><td>5</td><td>Five</td></tr> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list