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Adds render_to_html() method

This allows to render a graph to an html string.

It does exactly the same as render_in_browser(), but it returns
the string instead of opening the result in the browser.

This is useful if you need to render the graph to html
to embed it in a webpage.
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mippolito 8 years ago
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      pygal/graph/public.py

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pygal/graph/public.py

@ -78,6 +78,25 @@ class PublicApi(BaseGraph):
from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
return pq(self.render(**kwargs), parser='html')
def render_to_html(self, **kwargs):
"""
Renders the graph to an html string.
The result is the same as render_in_browser(), but returned as a string
so that it can be embedded into another html document.
"""
try:
from lxml.etree import ElementTree
except ImportError:
raise ImportError('You must install lxml to use render in browser')
from cStringIO import StringIO
buf = StringIO()
doc = ElementTree(self.render_tree(**kwargs))
doc.write(buf, method="html", encoding='utf-8')
return buf.getvalue().decode('utf-8')
def render_in_browser(self, **kwargs):
"""Render the graph, open it in your browser with black magic"""
try:

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