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html form template

You were to turn the HTML form into a template within the yate.py module.

1 You were to 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.

The CGI script’s <form action=$cgi_name method=$http_method> The list of <INPUT>
name and associated Enter a timing value: $list_of_inputs<br /> tags and the submit
HTTP method are button’s text is also
parameterized. <input type="Submit" value=$submit_text></form> parameterized.

With the template ready, you were to write the code for two functions 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.
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:
This “continuation”
def create_inputs(inputs_list):
character lets you split
html_inputs = '' a long line of code over
multiple lines.
T ake each name for each_input in inputs_list:
and create an
<INPUT> tag. html_inputs = html_inputs + ‘<input type= “Text" name="' + \
each_input + '" size=40>'

return(html_inputs)

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

Grab the with open(‘templates/form.html') as formf:
template from form_text = formf.read()
your disk.
inputs = create_inputs(the_inputs)

Create a form = Template(form_text) Create the list of <INPUT> tags.
template form.

return(form.substitute(cgi_name=name, http_method=method,
list_of_inputs=inputs, submit_text=text))

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