WebHelpers2

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WebHelpers2 ++++++++++++

WebHelpers2 provides functions useful in web applications: generating HTML tags, showing results a pageful at a time, etc. It may be used with any web framework or template engine. A brief outline is below, but see the documentation and module docstrings for a more complete list.

Documentation is in the docs/ directory or read the online documentation_. (It includes instructions on migrating from Webhelpers.)

constants Country codes, states and provinces.

containers High-level container objects and dict/list helpers.

date Date/time helpers. These currently format strings based on dates.

html A package of HTML-related helpers.

``builder``
    A library for generating HTML tags with smart escaping.  All
    public symbols are imported into ``webhelpers.html``.

``tags``
    High-level HTML tags, including form tags, hyperlinks, and 
    Javascript/CSS links.  The ``ModelTags`` class builds input
    tags from database records (for any kind of database).

``tools``
    Helpers producing chunks of HTML. Also test-to-HTML and HTML-to-text
    converters.

misc Miscellaneous helpers that are neither text, numeric, container, or date.

number Numeric helpers and number formatters.

text Helpers producing string output, suitable for both HTML and non-HTML applications.

For support/question/patches, please use the Pylons mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss>_.

Requirements

WebHelpers2 depends on MarkupSafe_ and six_, and it can also use unidecode_ if you have it installed.

.. _online documentation: http://webhelpers2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ .. _MarkupSafe: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MarkupSafe .. _six: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/six .. _unidecode: http://python.org/pypi/Unidecode/