[reportlab-users] How do I print a '&'?

[Martin_Simon]

Or try this:

from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
story.append(Paragraph(escape(your_text), your_style)

So you will print all those XML entities correctly without thinking much 
about it.
Martin Simon

Ilja Booij schrieb:

>On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:25:05 +0200, Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:20:52PM +0200, Ilja Booij wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>reportlab's a really nice product. Thanks.
>>>
>>>I've run into a problem. It's probably just my own mistake.
>>>
>>>I cannot seem to output the '&' symbol when using a paragraph:
>>>
>>>The following just prints nothing on the place of the '&':
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>>>story.append(Paragraph("IC & S", styNormal)).
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>>try this : story.append(Paragraph("IC &amp; S", styNormal)).
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>>you have to use correct SGML entities for special characters
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>Of course. I should drink more coffee. 
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>Thanks!
>
>Ilja
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