def buildtag(tag,contents):
    """Create HTML with the given tag and contents.
    
    This function returns a string with the given HTML
    tag and contents.  For example,
    >>> print buildtag("p", "Hello")
    <p>Hello</p>
    """
    
    open = "<" + tag + ">"
    close = "</" + tag + ">"
    return open + contents + close

# build the page's contents
open = buildtag("h1","Page title")
par1 = buildtag("p","This is the first paragraph.")

# output the page (not valid HTML)
print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print open + par1