Hello everyone,
I'm experimenting with pyfpdf with HTML formatting, but it's not going so
well. Is a bit buggy. For example, this code generates a KeyError: 'width'.
{from gluon.contrib.pyfpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin
from gluon.html import *
header = HEAD('html2pdf', _align='center')
pets = TABLE(_border=1, _width="100%")
pets.append(TR(TH('Dogs'),TH("Cats"),TH('Snakes')))
pets.append(TR('Collies','Tabby','Python'))
pets.append(TR('Akitas', 'Persian', 'Garter'))
class MyFPDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin):
pass
html2 = pets.xml()
print html2
pdf=MyFPDF()
#First page
pdf.add_page()
pdf.write_html(html2)
pdf.output('html2.pdf','F')}
I
{/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.pyc in goahead(self, end)
156 if startswith('<', i):
157 if starttagopen.match(rawdata, i): # < + letter
--> 158 k = self.parse_starttag(i)
159 elif startswith("</", i):
160 k = self.parse_endtag(i)
/usr/lib/python2.7/HTMLParser.pyc in parse_starttag(self, i)
322 self.handle_startendtag(tag, attrs)
323 else:
--> 324 self.handle_starttag(tag, attrs)
325 if tag in self.CDATA_CONTENT_ELEMENTS:
326 self.set_cdata_mode(tag)
/home/dave/PythonTraining/web2py/gluon/contrib/pyfpdf/html.pyc in
handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs)
245 self.td = dict([(k.lower(), v) for k,v in
attrs.items()])
246 self.th = True
--> 247 if self.td.has_key('width'):
248 self.table_col_width.append(self.td['width'])
249 if tag=='thead':
KeyError: 'width'
}
I tried changing line 247 to -
{if self.td.has_key('width'):}
But the KeyError is still getting raised. :-(
Is generating reports from HTML not recommended? In addition to this
KeyError, I've frequently gotten "list out of range" exceptions raised as
well, on what seem like the most vanilla of experiments.
