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WebHelpers2 contains convenience functions and classes to make HTML tags, process text, format numbers, do basic statistics, work with collections, and more. It's the successor to WebHelpers.

Version 2.1 fixes bugs and adds Python 3 support. The API and features are unchanged since 2.0. This version works on both Python 3 and 2. It was tested on Python 3.9, 3,10, 3,11, 3.12, and 2.7 on Linux, and should work on other platforms.

The next version will drop Python 2 and older Python 3 versions. No new helpers or API changes are expected. Instead it will focus on updating the packaging and documentation. It may delete some helpers that now have equivalents in recent Python versions.

For support/questions/patches, please use the pylons-discuss_ mailing list.

WebHelpers2 contains convenience functions to make HTML tags, process text, format numbers, do basic statistics, work with collections, and more. It's the successor to WebHelpers.

Version 2.1 fixes bugs and adds Python 3 support. The API and features are unchanged since 2.0. This version is tested on Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, and 2.7.

The next version will drop Python 2 and older Python 3 versions. No new helpers or API changes are expected. It will focus on updating the packaging and documentation. It may delete some helpers that now have equivalents in recent Python versions.

Documentation is in the docs/ directory or read the online documentation_.

constants Country codes, states and provinces.

containers High-level container objects and dict/list helpers.

date Date/time helpers. These currently format strings based on dates.

html A package of HTML-related helpers.

``builder``
    A library for generating HTML tags with smart escaping.  All
    public symbols are imported into ``webhelpers.html``.

``tags``
    High-level HTML tags, including form tags, hyperlinks, and 
    Javascript/CSS links.  The ``ModelTags`` class builds input
    tags from database records (for any kind of database).

``tools``
    Helpers producing chunks of HTML. Also test-to-HTML and HTML-to-text
    converters.

misc Miscellaneous helpers that are neither text, numeric, container, or date.

number Numeric helpers and number formatters.

text Helpers producing string output, suitable for both HTML and non-HTML applications.

For support/question/patches, please use the Pylons mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss>_.

Requirements

WebHelpers2 depends on MarkupSafe and six, and it can also use unidecode_ if you have it installed.

.. _online documentation: http://webhelpers2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ .. _MarkupSafe: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MarkupSafe .. _six: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/six .. _unidecode: http://python.org/pypi/Unidecode/