How to include html file inside Pisa document xhtml2pdf with python?

Question

I'm new in xhtml2pdf with python , write html code with python in readable format is somehow cumbersome . I want to know how to include .html file in pisa document.Here is simple code in which I create pdf file:

from xhtml2pdf import pisa   
def main():
    filename = "simplePrint.pdf"    
    # generate content
    xhtml = "<h1 align='center'>Test print</h1>\n"
    xhtml += "<h2>This is printed from within a Python application</h2>\n"
    xhtml += "<p style=\"color:red;\">Coloured red using css</p>\n"          
    pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(xhtml, file(filename, "w"))
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

If code of html is too large I want to make an another module, place it in myHtml.html file and include in 3rd last line like:

pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(myHtml.html, file(filename, "w"))

How I reach this problem?

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, then what you want is probably another file in the same directory as your above code called myHtml.py looking like this:

html = "<h1 align='center'>Test print</h1>\n"
html += "<h2>This is printed from within a Python application</h2>\n"
html += "<p style=\"color:red;\">Coloured red using css</p>\n"

and then in your above code import myHtml in the beginning.

However, I believe it would be better, if you put the html into a html file, called myTemplate.html for example. Then you could read the file like this:

template = open("myTemplate.html")
pdf = pisa.CreatePDF(template.read(), file(filename, "w"))
template.close()