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How can I create an automated Python program to fix formatting in a HTML file every week?

• I'm pretty new to programming. I have to generate a HTML file for a mailout of new products every week from a database in work. When I generate the mailout the formatting of it is all wrong and it I have to run through about 10 steps to fix it and it takes me about an hour to do. I can't change the formatting of the file before the software generates it (long story). Would it be possible to write some sort of C or Python program (or any sort of program) that I could copy the unedited HTML code into and it will fix it to the correct formatting but still have the new products? Basically I am just wondering how id write a simple program in C or Python that I could manually paste in the unedited HTML and the program would generate a file with the correct formatting. Thanks

• Answer:

  These kinds of tasks are often time consuming to write, but worth it if you can be free of an unpleasant task. Python will serve you well here.  Read in the file that is produced from your database, and then scan through it in memory, making the changes that you would normally make yourself, then write it back out to a new file. Once this works, you can schedule your program to run after the first file is produced. If you are on some form of UNIX, the scheduler is called 'cron' as Matthew pointed out, on Windows it is the 'Task Schedluer', and on the Mac it's 'launchd'.