def test_can_ignore(self):
"""Test whether comments and whitespace-only lines are ignored."""
self.assertEqual(_can_ignore("# a comment..."), True)
self.assertEqual(_can_ignore(" \t# a comment..."), True)
self.assertEqual(_can_ignore(" \t\n "), True)
self.assertEqual(_can_ignore("abc"), False)
self.assertEqual(_can_ignore(" \t abc "), False)
def format_participant_list(participants_f, url_prefix):
"""Formats an HTML list of personal IDs with links to personal results.
Returns the HTML list as a string suitable for writing to a file. Personal
IDs will be sorted.
Arguments:
participants_f - file containing a single personal ID per line. If
additional tab-separated columns exist, they will be ignored (this
allows the file to be in the same format as that accepted by
my_microbes.parse.parse_recipients for convenience)
url_prefix - URL to prefix each personal ID with to provide links to
personalized results (string)
"""
personal_ids = []
for line in participants_f:
if not _can_ignore(line):
personal_id = line.strip().split('\t')[0].strip()
if personal_id in personal_ids:
raise ValueError("The personal ID '%s' has already been "
"encountered. Personal IDs must be unique." %
personal_id)
personal_ids.append(personal_id)
personal_ids.sort()
url_prefix = url_prefix if url_prefix.endswith('/') else url_prefix + '/'
result = '<ul>\n'
for personal_id in personal_ids:
url = url_prefix + personal_id + '/index.html'
result += ' <li><a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a></li>\n' % (
url, personal_id)
result += '</ul>\n'
return result
