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Let’s turn the HTML form from the previous page into a template within the yate.py module.
1 Start by creating a new template called templates/form.html that allows you to
parameterize the form’s CGI script name, method, input tags, and submit button text:

With the template ready, write the code for two functions you intend to add to yate.py.
2
The first, called create_inputs(), takes a list of one of more strings and creates HTML <INPUT> tags
for each string, similar to the one that accepts TimeValue on the previous page.
The second, called do_form(), uses the template from Part 1 of this exercise together with the create_
inputs() function to generate a HTML form.
Given a list of <INPUT>
def create_inputs(inputs_list): tag names.

Return the
generated tags to The name of the CGI script and a list of
the caller. return(html_inputs) <INPUT> tag names are required arguments.

def do_form(name, the_inputs, method="POST", text="Submit"):

The HTTP method and text
to the “Submit” button have
sensible default values.

Substitute the
arguments and
generated <INPUT>
tags into the
template to create return(form.substitute(cgi_name=name, http_method=method,
the form. list_of_inputs=inputs, submit_text=text))

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