[TxMt] Re: unordered list nav snippet

[Jacob Rus]

Jacob Rus wrote:
> Dave Foy wrote:
>> I'm having trouble creating a custom snippet that, for me, would be 
>> really useful.
>>
>> I want to set up a snippet to create an unordered list nav from a 
>> plain text list, e.g.
>>
>> I'd like to highlight the whole list, hit a key combo, which would 
>> wrap each list item in <li>, wrap the whole lot in <ul>, and even wrap 
>> the text within each list item in <a href=""></a> for good measure.
> 
> Here's the command I came up with:
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/env python
>     import sys
> 
>     def wrap(string):
>         return '\t<li><a href="">%s</a></li>' % string.strip()
> 
>     print "\n".join(["<ul>"] +
>         [wrap(line) for line in sys.stdin] + ["</ul>"])

Actually, the following is probably clearer and easier to change, 
without any knowledge of python:

     #!/usr/bin/env python
     import sys

     print "<ul>"

     for line in sys.stdin:
         print '\t<li><a href="">' + line.strip() + '</a></li>'

     print "</ul>"