On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Spyros Charonis <s.charo...@gmail.com> wrote: > newline = line.replace(item, "<p> <font color = "red"> item ... > The Python compiler complains on the line I try to change the font color, > saying "invalid syntax".
Your issue here is not importing libraries, but your quotations. When you get to "red", it takes that first double quote as ENDING the string of HTML that starts with "<p>. It doesn't know that you're putting quotes inside your string, as the only way it knows when a string ends is when it reaches the quoting character that matches the beginning. The easiest solution is to use 'red' (using single quotes) as HTML accepts both. newline = line.replace(item, "<p> <font color = 'red'> item </font> </p>") As alternative you could use a different quoting for your string (note the single quotes on the outside): newline = line.replace(item, '<p> <font color = "red"> item </font> </p>') Alternatively you could escape your string. This tells Python that the quotes are NOT ending the string, and the backslashes will not appear in the resulting output: newline = line.replace(item, "<p> <font color = \"red\"> item </font> </p>") Note that the first option works because HTML accepts single or double quotes for it's attribute values. The second option works because single and double quotes for strings work the saem in Python (this is not true of all languages). The third option is pretty standard across languages, but can be annoying because it becomes harder to cut-and-paste strings to/from other places (for example, template files, raw HTML files, etc). Hope that helps! -- Brett Ritter / SwiftOne swift...@swiftone.org _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
