converts HTML to HAML for the HamlPy compiler
To install:
>> pip install tohaml
The only dependency is BeautifulSoup4 if you install it yourself:
>> python setup.py install
If you've downloaded an HTML file index.html then
>> tohaml index.html
will output to screen; and
>> tohaml index.html index.haml
will write to index.haml.
Alternatively, for shits and giggles, tohaml can fetch straight from a URL:
>> tohaml http://python.org python.haml
If you want to work this into a workflow in Python scripts, then, let's say you already have index.html:
import StringIO
import codecs
import tohaml
# read unicode characters - covers most cases :/
in_stream = codecs.open('index.html', encoding='utf-8')
out_stream = StringIO.StringIO()
tohaml.print_haml(in_stream, out_stream)
print out_stream.getvalue()
There are a few different varieties of HAML, of which, tohaml targets the variety used by the python HamlPy compiler.
In particular, <style> elements are preserved in indented blocks using the :css filter. As well, tag attributes are stored in the {} notation of Python dictionaries.
Unicode characters are automatically escaped into HTML entities. A couple of characters that are crucial to HamlPy (-, #, %) are also escaped if they are at the beginning of a block.
Alas, due to the nature of HAML, not all white-space between tags can be faithfully interpreted: either white space are inserted between both start/close tags, or no spaces at all.
- some examples
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