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

[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:
>>   
>>
>>> 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 '&':
>>>
>>> story.append(Paragraph("IC & S", styNormal)).
>>>     
>>
>> try this : story.append(Paragraph("IC &amp; S", styNormal)).
>>
>> you have to use correct SGML entities for special characters
>>   
>
>
> Of course. I should drink more coffee.
> Thanks!
>
> Ilja
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