User:Eleanorg/Thematic1.1/Manipulate Longitude 1
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#!/usr/bin/python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
# first stab at turning a longitude position into a hexadecimal colour, using lorem longitude no.
# numbers actually need some manipulation so that colour differences are visible - split them?
import re
longitude = str(002.9999) # must be a string for regex to work
longint = re.sub("\.", "", longitude) # removes decimal point, leaving a number between 12528 (harwich) a$
#print longitude
#print longint
hexcode = "#0" + longint
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print """
<html>
<body>
<div style="width: 300px; height: 300px; background-color: """ + hexcode + """;">
<p>""" + hexcode + """</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>"""
