python calendar.HTMLCalendar

Question

I think I want to use pythons built in calendar module to create an HTML calendar with data. I say I think because I\'ll probably think of a better way, but right now it\'s a l

Answer 1

You may load html, which seems to be valid XMl into a XML tree, modify it and again output it. e.g. this adds
cool to each Tue td node.

import calendar
import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree

myCal = calendar.HTMLCalendar(calendar.SUNDAY)
htmlStr = myCal.formatmonth(2009, 7)
htmlStr = htmlStr.replace(" "," ")

root = etree.fromstring(htmlStr)
for elem in root.findall("*//td"):
    if elem.get("class") != "tue":
        continue
    elem.text += "!"

    br = etree.SubElement(elem, "br")
    br.tail = "cool!"

print etree.tostring(root)

I do not yet know why you need to generate a HTML calendar, but there are better ways of doing that depending on needs and framework you are using.