[reportlab-users] errors parsing & > in paragraphs

[Timothy Smith]

Andy Robinson wrote:

>>it appears ther emight be some kind of inconsistency between the windows 
>>and source release? can anyone verify this by testing it.
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>>my freebsd installation simply chops out the & (also not really 
>>desirable) but windows actually errors
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>If they are different the most likely case is that you have
>a difference in which extensions are installed.  Can you do
>'import pyRXP' and 'import _rl_accel' in both?  In an ideal
>world the pure python implementation should do the same as the C ones,
>but it probably didn't at that time, and I suspect you have
>an extension in one which is not in the other.
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>IMHO a paragraph with naked >,  and & SHOULD cause an error, because
>paragraph source has always been treated as XML and there are
>lots of genuine tags you can embed.  But we were not strict about it 
>so usage has varied.  
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>The daily builds, which are a long way past 1.20 now, have had
>all of this reworked extensively and should fix the problem.
>We're long overdue for a 1.21 release, although project pressures
>mean it will be nearer the end of the year.
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>Best Regards,
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>Andy
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ok so where can i pick up a daily build? i'm ready to update anyway.