So the question is, what are the good ways to format code for blog posts, when you don't control the machine that serves the pages (like on Blogger). The first---and motivating---post in this series is here.
I always prefer simple to complex. I even prefer simple html pages, although I'll ignore the obvious problem that pages are not simple any more when Blogger gets through with them.
So I liked the idea of controlling the color of text in a page with self-defined tags. For example, we can put this in the head of our html document:
It's a seductively simple idea. But.. it requires a way of parsing Python code to generate the appropriate tags. I thought if I enforced some rules that could be done relatively easily.
After a few hours, I have something that sort of works, but it has too many bugs to be useful yet.
The main simplifying rule is that multi-line strings are not allowed. Also, at this point I assume that indentation is a four-space tab.
You can see the results in the graphic (above). I put the script on Dropbox (simple_parser.py). Without a lot more debugging, this seems like it's probably not the best option, but it was an entertaining exercise for the afternoon.
