diff -r 7dc357cbaa40 -r 8b8efd570497 gmyth-stream/server/0.2/lib/utils.py
--- a/gmyth-stream/server/0.2/lib/utils.py	Thu Apr 19 22:38:46 2007 +0100
+++ b/gmyth-stream/server/0.2/lib/utils.py	Mon May 07 14:26:39 2007 +0100
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@
 
 log = logging.getLogger("gms.utils")
 
-__all__ = ("which", "load_plugins", "PluginSet")
+__all__ = ("which", "load_plugins", "PluginSet", "getHTML")
 
 def which(app):
-    """function to implement which(1) unix command"""
+    """Function to implement which(1) unix command"""
     pl = os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep)
     for p in pl:
         path = os.path.join(p, app)
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 
 
 def load_plugins(directory, basetype):
+    """Function to load plugins from a given directory"""
     tn = basetype.__name__
     log.debug("Loading plugins from %s, type=%s" % (directory, tn))
 
@@ -146,3 +147,15 @@
 
     return plugins
 # load_plugins()
+
+def getHTML(html_file, params={}):
+    """This function parses a file 'html_file.html' with the given
+    parameters and returns a formated web-page"""
+    try:
+        filename = os.path.join(sys.path[0], "html", html_file + ".html")
+        html = open(filename).read() % params
+        return html
+    except Exception, e:
+        return "HTML format error. Wrong keys: %s" % e
+
+# getHTML