Look at my log and see how it says that the row I'm getting back from Postgres has been turned from a string into an element (and I print the string, print the element, print the isElement boolean!) and yet when I try to append it, the error is that it's not an element. Huff, puff.
import sys
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
from xml.etree import cElementTree as etree
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement, tostring
import psycopg2
import psycopg2.extras
def main():
# Connect to an existing database
conn = psycopg2.connect(dbname="**", user="**", password="**", host="/tmp/", port="**")
# Open a cursor to perform database operations
cur = conn.cursor(cursor_factory = psycopg2.extras.RealDictCursor)
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM landingpagedata;")
rows = cur.fetchall()
class LinksParser(HTMLParser):
def __init__(self):
HTMLParser.__init__(self)
self.tb = etree.TreeBuilder()
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attributes):
self.tb.start(tag, dict(attributes))
def handle_endtag(self, tag):
self.tb.end(tag)
def handle_data(self, data):
self.tb.data(data)
def close(self):
HTMLParser.close(self)
return self.tb.close()
template = 'template.html'
# parser.feed(open('landingIndex.html').read()) #for testing
# root = parser.close()
for row in rows:
parser = LinksParser()
parser.feed(open(template).read())
root = parser.close()
#title
title = root.find(".//title")
title.text = row['title']
#headline
h1_id_headline = root.find(".//h1")
h1_id_headline.text = row['h1_id_headline']
# print row['h1_id_headline']
#intro
p_class_intro = root.find(".//p[@class='intro']")
p_class_intro.text = row['p_class_intro']
# print row['p_class_intro']
Here is where the problems occur!
#recommended
p_class_recommendedbackground = root.find(".//div[@class='recommended_background_div']")
print p_class_recommendedbackground
p_class_recommendedbackground.clear()
newElement = ET.fromstring(row['p_class_recommendedbackground'])
print row['p_class_recommendedbackground']
print ET.iselement(newElement)
p_class_recommendedbackground.append(newElement)
html = tostring(root)
f = open(row['page_name'], 'w').close()
f = open(row['page_name'], 'w')
f.write(html)
f.close()
# f = ''
# html = ''
parser.reset()
root = ''
# Close communication with the database
cur.close()
conn.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
My log is this:
{background: url(/images/courses/azRealEstate.png) center no-repeat;}
<Element 'div' at 0x10a999720>
<p class="recommended_background">Materials are are aimed to all aspiring real estate sales associates who wish to obtain the Arizona Real Estate Salesperson license, which is provided by the <a href="http://www.re.state.az.us/" style="text-decoration: underline;">Arizona Department of Real Estate</a>.</p>
True
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Morgan13/Programming/LandingPageBuilder/landingPages/landingBuilderTest.py", line 108, in <module> main()
File "/Users/Morgan13/Programming/LandingPageBuilder/landingPages/landingBuilderTest.py", line 84, in main
p_class_recommendedbackground.append(newElement)
TypeError: must be Element, not Element
[Finished in 0.1s with exit code 1]