I have seen a couple of question related to my issue but haven't been able to get an answer.
In my program I have a .txt file that needs to be converted to PDF. I came across this script that does the same, https://code.activestate.com/recipes/189858-python-text-to-pdf-converter/
I have imported this into my program, but I am not sure how to call and pass my txt file so that it converts it to PDF.
.txt to .pdf converter script name is txttopdf.py i have imported it as import txttopdf and it is present in the same directory
Last part of my program is trying to convert the .txt to .pdf but it gives me a Syntax error. Below is my program import sqlite3 import platform import sys import os import re import time import smtplib import mimetypes import txttopdf from datetime import datetime from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from email import encoders from email.message import Message
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
ipstr = "unknown"
errorstr = "unknown"
gtstr = "unknown"
print "reading the file"
linuxpath = raw_input("Enter the path")
txt_file = open(linuxpath,"r")
countlines = 0
if os.stat("lastline.txt").st_size == 0:
for line in open(linuxpath):
pattern = re.compile('(([2][5][0-5]\.)|([2][0-4][0-9]\.)|([0-1]?[0-9]?[0-9]\.)){3}'+'(([2][5][0-5])|([2][0-4][0-9])|([0-1]?[0-9]?[0-9]))|[\d.]+|\:\:\d|[\w\.]+')
#([\d.]+)[\s-]+\s+"([A-Z]+)\s+(.+?)"\s+([\s\d]+)')\[([\d\/A-Za-z: -]+)\]
iprgex = pattern.search(line)
#print "hi"
countlines = countlines + 1
if iprgex:
ips = iprgex.start()
ipe = iprgex.end()
ipstr = line[ips:ipe]
#print "hi again"
#print ipstr
pattern = re.compile('[\d]+\/[A-Za-z]+\/[\d]+')
#('\[([\d\/A-Za-z: -]+)\]')
datergex = pattern.search(line)
#print "hi"
if datergex:
dates = datergex.start()
datee = datergex.end()
datestr = line[dates:datee]
#countlines = countlines + 1
#print "hi again"
#print datestr
monthstr = datestr[3:6]
#print monthstr
if monthstr == "Jan":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Jan","01")
elif monthstr == "Feb":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Feb","02")
elif monthstr == "Mar":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Mar","03")
#print "am here"
#print datestr
elif monthstr == "Apr":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Apr","04")
elif monthstr == "May":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("May","05")
elif monthstr == "Jun":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Jun","06")
elif monthstr == "Jul":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Jul","07")
elif monthstr == "Aug":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Aug","08")
elif monthstr == "Sep":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Sep","09")
elif monthstr == "Oct":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Oct","10")
elif monthstr == "Nov":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Nov","11")
elif monthstr == "Dec":
date_chnge = datestr.replace("Dec","12")
#print date_chnge
dt_day = date_chnge[0:2]
dt_month = date_chnge[3:5]
dt_year = date_chnge[6:]
new_date = dt_year + '-' + dt_month + '-' + dt_day
pattern = re.compile('\:[\d]+\:[\d]+\:[\d]+')
#('\[([\d\/A-Za-z: -]+)\]')
timergex = pattern.search(line)
#print "hi"
if timergex:
times = timergex.start()
timee = timergex.end()
timestr = line[times:timee]
#countlines = countlines + 1
#print "hi again"
#print timestr
extract_time = timestr[1:]
datestring = new_date + ' ' + extract_time
dt = datetime.strptime(datestring, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
#print dt.year, dt.month, dt.day
pattern = re.compile('"([A-Z]+)\s+(.+?)"|"\-"')
getrgex = pattern.search(line)
#print line
if getrgex:
gts = getrgex.start()
gte = getrgex.end()
gtstr = line[gts:gte]
#countlines = countlines + 1
#print "hi again"
#print gtstr
pattern = re.compile('200|401|403|404|412|500|302')
errorrgex = pattern.search(line)
#print "hi"
if errorrgex:
errors = errorrgex.start()
errore = errorrgex.end()
errorstr = line[errors:errore]
#countlines = countlines + 1
#print "hi again"
#print errorstr
file = open('parse1.txt','a')
file.write(ipstr + datestr +timestr + gtstr + errorstr + "\n")
#Analysing the get request
print countlines
#print ipstr,dt,gtstr,errorstr
with open('ALLINONE.txt','r') as f:
for cheatsheetline in f:
indexvalue = gtstr.strip().find(cheatsheetline.strip())
#print gtstr
if indexvalue > 0:
#print indexvalue
file = open('CAUTION.txt','a')
file.write(ipstr + datestr +timestr + gtstr + errorstr + "\n")
#break
file.close()
lastlinefile = open('lastline.txt','w+')
lastlinefile.write(line)
#this part should convert the txt file CAUTION.txt to PDF
#txttopdf.main()
txttopdf CAUTION.txt
1 Answer 1
The easiest way to do this is via subprocess.Popen:
Example:
import sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE,, STDOUT
PYTEXT2PDF = "/path/to/pytext2pdf"
def convert(filename):
print("Converting {} to PDF".format(filename))
p = Popen(
[sys.executable, PYTEXT2PDF, filename],
stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT
)
stdout, _ = p.communicate()
print(stdout)
convert("filename.txt")
By the looks of it; pyText2Pdf will convert the Text file to PDF and name the output file the same "basenaem" as the input file with the extension of .pdf.