Python HTML Minimizer

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I have a cherrypy web server that uses larges amounts of HTML data. Is there anyway in Python to minimize the HTML so that all comments, spaces, ext, are removed?

bobince · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-17 08:27:18Z

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Not what you mean, but: Gzip. (Assuming you aren't already serving through a compressing front-end.) Compression will zip away whitespace to almost nothing; unless you have excessively large comments this will be more effective than minification.

answered Sep 17, 2009 at 8:27

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user185635 · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-07 13:35:25Z

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there are bindings to tidy for python, called mxTidy from eGenix (Marc André Lemburg)

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Will · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-17 08:05:08Z

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HTML Tidy's libtidy doesn't seem to have python bindings (bit it does have perl and c++ etc), but ought to be easy to run as an exe in a pipe.

Or ideally, use it to 'tidy' all static html files once so they don't need to be tidied each time they are served.

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Andrea Ambu Over a year ago

That page links to a TidyLib Python wrapper: utidylib.berlios.de but I don't know if it minifies.

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