Try using a StringIO object as your file.
import htmllib
import formatter
from cStringIO import StringIO
def index(self, html):
file = StringIO()
fmtr = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(file))
p = htmllib.HTMLParser(fmtr)
p.feed(html)
file.seek(0)
return file.read()
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Spisak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:47 AM
Subject: [Zope] Fighting htmllib in external method
> Howdy Zopsters,
>
> I want to catalog some html files but I want to strip the html tags out.
> htmlparser does a good job of that, but when I try to acces that from an
> external method, I run into trouble.
>
> import htmllib
> import formatter
>
> def index(self, html):
> fmtr = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(file))
> p = htmllib.HTMLParser(fmtr)
> return p.feed(html)
>
> Since the DumbWriter uses stdout, this returns None. When I try to write
> to a temporary file, or pipe I get 'bad file descriptor' errors because of
> the way external method function I guess. Any help would really be
> appreciated.
>
> All my best,
>
>
> Jason Spisak
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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