PyHtmlEdit README

PyHtmlEdit is a simple Python text editor optimized for the kinds of HTML formatting that I commonly do.

Author

• Author: Ryan McGreal
• Email: ryan@quandyfactory.com
• Homepage: http://quandyfactory.com/projects/2/pyhtmledit
• Repository: http://github.com/quandyfactory/PyHtmlEdit

PyHtmlEdit was assembled from stuff I found online and some functions I've written.

Licence

Released under the GNU General Public Licence, Version 2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

This Version

• Version: 3.2

• Release Date: 2023-08-31

Requirements

• Python 3
• python-markdown2 https://pypi.org/project/markdown2/
• HTML2text https://pypi.org/project/html2text/

Notes

Python 3

The biggest change is that previous versions of this program used Python 2.x, which is now obsolete and has met its end-of-life. The current version uses Python3.

Tkinter

Previous versions of this program used wxPython as the GUI library, which turned out to be quite a hassle. Now it uses Tkinter, which ships with Python by default and should be available to all users.

Markdown2

This software does not come bundled with a markdown parser. It assumes you have python-markdown2 installed.

https://pypi.org/project/markdown2/

So you should install it.

Revision History

Version 3.2

• Release Date: 2023-08-31

• Changes:

  • Added Power BI to SQL Server and SQL Server to Power BI conversion to Format menu
  • Added Bookmarklet to JS and JS to Bookmarklet conversion to Format menu

Version 3.1

• Release Date: 2020-05-27

• Changes:

  • Added support for Undo (Ctrl-z) and Redo (Ctrl-y).
  • Added a Link section under the HTML menu for anchor and hyperlink tags.
  • Include the version in the window title.

Version 3.0

• Release Date: 2020-05-25

• Changes:

  • Switched from Python 2.x to Python 3.x.
  • Swapped the GUI library from wxPython to Tkinter.
  • Added File -> Open-Insert, which opens a new file and adds it to the current document at the top.
  • Added File -> Open-Append, which opens a new file and adds it to the current document at the bottom.
  • Added Edit -> Find, which finds and highlights the next occurrence of the search term.
  • Added Edit -> Replace Next, which finds and replaces the next occurrence of the search term.
  • Added Edit -> Replace All, which finds and replaces every occurrence of the search term.
  • Fixed a long-standing bug in the table creation function, which misplaced the tag before the tag.
  • Added ability to specify caption, number of rows and number of columns for a new table.
  • Removed some Format menu options that I literally never use.
  • Dropped support for python-markdown, which is not as good as python-markdown2.
  • Added Ctrl keyboard shortcuts for some common actions (e.g. Ctrl-r for replace all). (Alt keyboard shortcuts still work.)

Version 0.63

• Release Date: 2013-01-16

• Changes:

  • Added div.centered to HTML > Block menu

Version 0.62

• Release Date: 2012-06-08

• Changes:

  • Fixed the extra spaces inside blockquote elements on markdown_it()
  • Added class="initial" to the first <p> after an </h3>

Version 0.61

• Release Date: 2011-08-16

• Changes:

  • Change hyperlink function so it does not add a target="_blank".

Version 0.60

• Release Date: 2011-08-15

• Changes:

  • Moved document statistics from menu item into status bar, updated constantly
  • Minor bug fix in function calculating word count when there are no words in document

Version 0.58

• Release Date: 2011-03-11

• Changes:

  • Added try ... except ImportError around import wxversion to catch people who don't have wx installed.

Version: 0.57

• Release Date: 2011-02-10

• Changes:

  • Add blank line between block elements in Tools -> Markdown.

Version: 0.56

• Release Date: 2010-06-22

• Changes:

  • Fixed small bug in Excel-to-table converter to trim extraneous white space from data rows.

Version: 0.55

• Release Date: 2010-06-07

• Changes:

  • Changed alt-h-b-o (convert block to image) so that if you highlight an image source on one line with the title on the next line, the function formats both.

Version: 0.54

• Release Date: 2010-01-07

• Changes:

  • Finally added icon
  • Removed extranous print statements from code

Version: 0.53

• Release Date: 2009-12-02

• Changes:

  • Clean function now replaces multiple spaces with a single space

Version: 0.52

• Release Date: 2009-12-01

• Changes:

  • Word Count now includes a separate count of non-blank lines

Version: 0.51

• Release Date: 2009-11-25

• Changes:

  • Generated tables (new and convert) now include thead and tbody elements.

Version: 0.5

• Release Date: 2009-09-29

• Changes:

  • Added fix_common_misspellings(), which automatically replaces commonly misspelled words with their correct spellings. Case sensitive.

Version: 0.44

• Release Date: 2009-09-28

• Changes:

  • Updated check_last_update() to reflect change in pygithubapi (send over user, repo instead of URL).

Version: 0.43

• Release Date: 2009-09-25

• Changes:

  • Added proxy support for check_last_update().
  • PyGithubApi.py must be at least version 0.11 to work with this version of PyHtmlEdit.
  • Added set_config(config) to save configuration values in a pickled dictionary. Saves in a file called pyhtmledit_config in the same folder as pyhtmledit.py.
  • Added get_config() to get configuration values from a pickled dictionary

Version: 0.42

• Release Date: 2009-09-24

• Changes:

  • added check_last_update() function, which uses pygithubapi and is available as "Check Version" from About menu. It compares version with the latest commit date in the GitHub API for the PyHtmlEdit repository.
  • Added repository variable to top to link to public repository

Version: 0.41

• Release Date: 2009-09-22

• Changes:

  • Modified Replace function to replace over entire document if no selection
  • Added release date to About page.

Version: 0.4

• Release Date: 2009-09-22

• Changes:

  • Fixed bug in table creation code that was adding as closing tag.
  • Added a Replace function that takes a selection of text and replaces the value of find with the value of replace.
  • Added an SQL function that converts special SQL punctuation to entity codes.
  • Replaced CamelCase on function and method names to lowercase_with_underscores.
  • Changed Markdown function to stop closing
    tag from going to a new line on Windows, and also adding a blank line after each paragraph.

Version: 0.3

• Release Date: 2009-08-07

• Changes:

  • Added Tools function to convert markdown syntax into HTML. See note, below, for details.

Version: 0.2

• Release Date: 2009-08-06

• Changes:

  • Replaced wx version kludge with wxversion.select()
  • Added html2text function from: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/
  • Added an icon (webtools.ico)
  • Added a note in README to add a tutorial in the future
  • Included both a README.html and a README.txt

Version: 0.1

• Release Date: 2009-08-06