I am having some problems using Python to generate an html document. I am attempting to create an HTML list of a directory tree. This is what I have so far:
You could separate the directory tree generation and its rendering as html.
To generate the tree you could use a simple recursive function:
def make_tree(path):
tree = dict(name=os.path.basename(path), children=[])
try: lst = os.listdir(path)
except OSError:
pass #ignore errors
else:
for name in lst:
fn = os.path.join(path, name)
if os.path.isdir(fn):
tree['children'].append(make_tree(fn))
else:
tree['children'].append(dict(name=name))
return tree
To render it as html you could use jinja2's loop recursive
feature:
<!doctype html>
<title>Path: {{ tree.name }}</title>
<h1>{{ tree.name }}</h1>
<ul>
{%- for item in tree.children recursive %}
<li>{{ item.name }}
{%- if item.children -%}
<ul>{{ loop(item.children) }}</ul>
{%- endif %}</li>
{%- endfor %}
</ul>
Put the html into templates/dirtree.html
file.
To test it, run the following code and visit http://localhost:8888/
:
import os
from flask import Flask, render_template
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def dirtree():
path = os.path.expanduser(u'~')
return render_template('dirtree.html', tree=make_tree(path))
if __name__=="__main__":
app.run(host='localhost', port=8888, debug=True)