On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bill Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to build an HTML body text for an email using a docstring with > variables inserted a certain points. It all works just fine, except that > the first instance of the variable "pecn" in the HTML link does not get > inserted into the text. The second instance of "pecn" gets inserted ok into > that HTML link. What is the right way to do this or is there a better way > in general? >
The variable is inserted just fine for me, though there's some problems with the <a> tag, because you shouldn't surround GET variables with quotation marks, e.g. you should do this: http://example.com/?ecn=423434 NOT this: http://example.com/?ecn="423434"; If you do this, the HTML parser will encounter the first ", think that it's come to the end of the href="" attribute, and ignore the rest. But that's an HTML issue, not a python one. As an aside, consider using string formatting operations like so: newMail.HTMLBody = """ <pre> ECN number {0} on Project {1} has been closed. Below is a link to the ECN on the intranet. <a href="http://web_server_at_work.com/cgi-bin/part-url.cgi?ecn={0}";>{0}</a> ECN Description: {2}""".format(pecn, pecn_project, pdesc) Hugo _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
