Question

I am trying to construct a HTML table in python and running into the following syntax error,can anyone please point what is the issue here?

for i in range(len(PLlis)):
    print "i"
    print i
    outstring += "<tr>\n"
    outstring += "<td><a href="wikilinklis[i]">PLlist[0]</a></td>\n"
    outstring += "<td>build_locationlis[i]</td>\n"
    outstring += "<td>lis[i]</td>\n"
    outstring += "<td>Host_loc</td>\n"
    outstring += "<td>Baselis[i]</td>\n"
    outstring += "</tr>\n"
outstring += "</table>\n"
return outstring

SYNTAX ERROR:-

   outstring += "<td><a href="wikilinklis[i]">PLlist[0]</a></td>\n"
                                     ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 1

concatenate your strings:

outstring += "<td><a href=" + wikilinklis[i] + ">PLlist[0]</a></td>\n"

if wikilinks is a python array of strings. Otherwise you have to escape the quotes (if you’re trying to write ‘wikilinks[i]’ as a string).