[TxMt] Re: unordered list nav snippet

Jacob Rus wrote:

Dave Foy wrote:

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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>"