Is this report to be printed? If so, just generate a pdf.
On Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:06:33 PM UTC-4, thinkwell wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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