Question

In the company I am working they use the above command to construct a link from a list of data we are holding on a map

link=a % firstUpper(b)

which produces something like

<a href="path/tomyhtml/foo.html">foo</a>

I would like to alter the link string and add a title attribute to it so it becomes like

<a href="path/tomyhtml/foo.html" title="Some cool title">foo</a>

my thought was to alter add the title in 3rd character which looks to be “most” of the times a space, but in my mind is not the most elegant solution.

Answer 1

Using BeautifulSoup:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup('<a href="path/tomyhtml/foo.html">foo</a>')
soup.a["title"] = "Some cool title"