HTML5

HTML5 is a Python lib to create standards compliant html.

Given Python code with well-written docstrings and argument specifications (really nice autocompletion and assistance by online helps):

Article([H1('Top Level Heading in an Article'),
         P(['This is a paragraph under the article'], Class='Foo'),
         Comment(['this is a <comment>, all kinds of '
                  '<weirdness> can be hidden from parsing']),
         H2('2nd level heading in the Article'),
         P(['Another paragraph, with a {link} to back it up.'.format(
              link=A('http://foo/bar', 'linky'))]),
        ]),

We output really well-defined HTML5:

<article>
  <h1>
    Top Level Heading in an Article
  </h1>
  <p Class="Foo">
    This is a paragraph under the article
  </p>
  <!--
    this is a <comment>, all kinds of <weirdness> can be hidden from parsing
  //-->
  <h2>
    2nd level heading in the Article
  </h2>
  <p>
    Another paragraph, with a <a href="http://foo/bar">
      linky
    </a> to back it up.
  </p>
</article>

Installation

Ideally, to install we will have set up pip, but we haven't yet:

$ pip install html5

Contributing

You can get a local copy to make contributions with this:

$ git clone http://www.github.com/aaronchall/html5.py

Note that we don't yet have an __all__, we're going to stick to the convention that exported names don't start with an _. So if we need to import a stdlib module, alias it to be prefixed with an _. Also name helper functions not intended for export by prefixing an _. Also do not ever name anything "helper".

Test out the main with:

$ python -m html5

Test the setup.py and README.rst (this file) with:

$  python setup.py check --restructuredtext

Run tests with either of the following:

$ python -m nose
$ nosetests

TODOs

• write unittests
• write acceptance tests (end to end)
• write docs
• make documented helper functions for input objects in forms module
• improve documentation on preexisting objects
• .gitignore ignores *index.html - is that ok?
• POSTPONED: make some __all__ lists for the modules