stripping html of tags

[a]

hi guys
i want to display a snippet of data from a html source, and i want to
strip it of html because an unclose tag will make the rest of the page
look like
that
please help me out
thanks

[Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos]

Cheers,

> i want to display a snippet of data from a html source, and i want to
> strip it of html because an unclose tag will make the rest of the page
> look like

You have the striptags tag:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#striptags

You can also access the function from outside the templates. It is in:
django/utils/html.py:

def strip_tags(value):
"Returns the given HTML with all tags stripped"
return re.sub(r'<[^>]*?>', '', value)

Hope it helps,

G

[a]

url a gem
wat about unclosed tags
such a href="google.com
because
i need a slice of data...

[a]

<a href="http://youtube.com/profile?us
leaves these behind
do you know to fix these

[SmileyChris]

Why don't you strip before you slice.

[a]

because i have to display about 10 elements and each can be over 1 or
2pages long
but i m going to display only 200 characters from each and if i strip
the whole thing it becomes a huge time lag for generating the page..

[SmileyChris]

How about slicing to 1000 (or however much you want to be safe that
you'll get 200 of non-tags), then strip, then slice down to 200.

For a slightly different approach there is a patch I wrote for
providing an html-aware truncatewords filter at
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2027 which you could try using.

[a]

i dont understand patches
i ll appreciate if you can send me the html file
thanks

[v...@klankschap.nl]

As i'm still rather new to this django stuff, here is my simple question:
Is it possible to install django on an alien server?
Alien in the meaning of having it hosted by a provider.
Similar to having mambo or phpbbs or what have you in php flavored
systems.

thanks!
Floris van Manen

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On 14-Sep-06, at 2:56 PM, v...@klankschap.nl wrote:

> As i'm still rather new to this django stuff, here is my simple
> question:
> Is it possible to install django on an alien server?

as long as you have shell access you can do so

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kg
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[Frankie Robertson]

On 14/09/06, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 14-Sep-06, at 2:56 PM, v...@klankschap.nl wrote:
>
> > As i'm still rather new to this django stuff, here is my simple
> > question:
> > Is it possible to install django on an alien server?
>
> as long as you have shell access you can do so

That's generally a good rule of the thumb. However there are some
hosts that have shell access but not fastcgi or mod_python and there
could be hosts (although I know of none currently) that have fastcgi
and python but no shell access.

Frankie