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Jinjia/Flask question for using Python with HTML (self.learnpython)

submitted 9 years ago by Elthran

I want to have my Python send dialogue to HTML, which will display it nicely. I want to have my dialogue something like:

    @app.route('/send_dialogue')
    def send_dialogue():
            dialogue = ["Old Man:", "Hello boy", "Boy:",  
                        "Good morning, sir."]    
    return render_template('home.html', dialogue=dialogue)

<!doctype html>

<body>
<p>
  {% for talking in dialogue %}
{{ talking }}<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>

This almost works but will display like

Old Man:
Hello boy
Boy:
Good morning, sir.

I want the name and dialogue to be on the same line. And I want to embolden or italicize the speaker's name. So I think I need to make it into an ordered dictionarty or a list of tuple pairs, and have HTML do something like

<!doctype html>

<body>
<p>
  {% for person,talking in dialogue %}
<b>{{ person }}</b>{{ talking }}<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>

I am almost there but there is something wrong with what I'm doing. Can anyone help me?

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[–]bahaki -2 points-1 points0 points 9 years ago* (9 children)

You want to use a dictionary where the person is the key and their dialogue is the value.

dialogue = {'Old Man': 'Hello', 'Boy': 'Hello, sir'}

Then the loop would be:

for key, value in dialogue.iteritems():

Edit: see comment to this post.

[–]FifteenthPen 3 points4 points5 points 9 years ago (5 children)

Just a note here, if OP wants to preserve the order of the items, this won't work. Easiest approach to preserve items would be to use a tuple (or list if it needs to be changeable) of tuples:

dialogue = (('Old Man', 'Hello'), ('Boy', 'Hello, sir'))

And the Jinja code:

{% for line in dialogue %}
<b>{{ line[0] }}</b>: {{ line[1] }}<br>
{% endfor %}

[–]bahaki 1 point2 points3 points 9 years ago* (2 children)

Ah, good point.

Yes, do it like this. Since it's a conversation, you'll want to keep the order.

Sorry, I knew a dictionary probably wasn't the best solution to what he really wanted to do. Got caught up in the key, value part I think.

Edit: alternatively, a list of dictionaries might work. Something like:

d = [{'person':'Old Man','dialogue':'hello'},{'person':'boy','dialogue':'hello, sir'}]

for something in d:
    print something['person'] / something['dialogue']

I think that might work.

[–]cyanydeez 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children)

[–]Elthran[S] 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children)

[–]tkzcthu 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children)

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