Question:

How to implement plain text to HTML converter in Python?

Problem:

I'm trying to implement a simple "plain text to html" converter, but can't figure out why it doesn't work as intended. So here's what I want to do - let's say we have a text: text = 'Hey! /n/nIt was really nice to meet you! /n/nOur team hopes to see you soon! /n/n/nBest regards, /nYour new team.' So for such text, what I want to do is:

Wrap all the text inside the tags
Each line should be wrapped into tags
If there's only a single /n that means that this is a new line and we just have to wrap it into p tags
but if there are multiple /n then each /n starting from 2nd should be replaced as tag, and then for the last /n just wrap a line into p (see point 2)

here's the code i've made for now:

def convert_text_to_html(text):

# Split the text into lines using /n as the delimiter

lines = text.split('/n')

# Initialize an empty new_lines_replaced string

new_lines_replaced = ''

for line in lines:

# Initialize a count to keep track of consecutive /n

count = 0

# Check for consecutive /n characters at the beginning of the line

while line.startswith('/n'):

count += 1

line = line[2:]

# Add the corresponding number of tags

br_tags = ' ' * count

# Wrap the line in tags

new_lines_replaced += f'{br_tags}{line}'

# Wrap the entire string with and tags

return f'{new_lines_replaced}'

but instead it returns only p tags and no br tags, here's the output: Hey! It was really nice to meet you! Our team hopes to see you soon! Best regards, Mojob team.

UPD: alright guys, thanks to all of you, but i decided to move forward with empty tags instead of ones, so found a solution to work this way:

def convert_text_to_html(text):

# replace each `\n` with empty tag - it closes the previous one and opens a new one

new_lines_replaced = text.replace('\n', '')

# add initial tag for the first line

new_lines_replaced = f'{new_lines_replaced}'

return f'{new_lines_replaced}'

Solution:

You're trying to check if the line starts with a /n, this will never be true since str.split(x) splits the str at all occurrences of x and removes x from the str. Also you don't need to check for /ns in the for loop since every line is indeed a new line.

And you're getting empty because you don't check if the line is empty or not

Here is the improved code:

def convert_text_to_html(text):

# Split the text into lines using /n as the delimiter

lines = text.split('/n')

# Initialize an empty new_lines_replaced string

new_lines_replaced = ''

for line in lines:

if not line == lines[0]: # Check if this is the first iteration, since we don't want an unwanted br at the start of the html

# Add tag

new_lines_replaced += ' '

# Now the line can be empty since /n/n exits and that would lead to [..., "", ...] when split