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converts color codes to html for colors to be displayed in a browser
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colors2html.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Converts color codes from text to html
# so that colors can be visible in a browser
#
import re
import sys
HTML_START="<html><head /><body><pre>"
HTML_END="</pre></body></html>"
COLOR_REPLACE='<b><span style="color:%s;background:#000000">%s</span></b>'
def to_html_color(color_string_orig, color_string):
# generate html code for color
return COLOR_REPLACE % (color_string,color_string_orig)
def replace_color(color_match):
# function for color substitution
color_code=color_match.group(0)
color_code_noalpha=color_code[-6:]
if color_code_noalpha[0]!="#":
color_code_noalpha="#"+color_code_noalpha
return to_html_color(color_code, color_code_noalpha)
if __name__=="__main__":
# read from file or stdin
if len(sys.argv)>1:
f_in = file(sys.argv[1],'r')
content = f_in.read()
f_in.close()
else:
content = sys.stdin.read()
# convert from xml
content = content.replace("<","&lt;")
content = content.replace(">","&gt;")
print HTML_START
print re.sub("#[0-9a-zA-Z]{2,8}",replace_color,content)
print HTML_END
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