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HTML Generator

You are writing a script that generates HTML for a webpage on the fly. So far, you have written two decorators that will add bold or italics tags to any function that returns a string. You notice, however, that these two decorators look very similar. Instead of writing a bunch of other similar looking decorators, you want to create one decorator, html(), that can take any pair of opening and closing tags.

def bold(func):
  @wraps(func)
  def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
    msg = func(*args, **kwargs)
    return '<b>{}</b>'.format(msg)
  return wrapper
def italics(func):
  @wraps(func)
  def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
    msg = func(*args, **kwargs)
    return '<i>{}</i>'.format(msg)
  return wrapper

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Writing Functions in Python

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

def html(open_tag, close_tag):
  def decorator(func):
    @wraps(func)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
      msg = func(*args, **kwargs)
      return '{}{}{}'.format(open_tag, msg, close_tag)
    # Return the decorated function
    return ____
  # Return the decorator
  return ____
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