Question

I would like to generate an HttpResponse that contains a certain string. For each of the characters in the string I have a background color I want to use.

For simplification, let’s assume I can only have shades of green in the background, and that the “background colors” data represents “level of brightness” in the green domain.

For example, a response may be ‘abcd’, and my “background colors” data may be:

[0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0]

This would mean the first character ‘a’ needs to have a background of dark green (e.g. 004000), the second character ‘b’ needs to have a background of bright green (e.g. 00ff00), the third character ‘c’ needs to have a “middle” brightness (e.g. 00A000), and so on.

I don’t want to use a template but rather just return “plain text” response. Is that possible?

If not – what would be the simplest template I could use for that?

Thanks

Answer 1

It could be something like this:

aString = 'abcd'
newString =''
colors= [0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0]
for i in aString:
    newString = newString + '<span style="background-color: rgb(0,%s,0)">%s</span>'%(colors.pop(0)*255,i)



response = HttpResponse(newString)

untested