[reportlab-users] errors parsing & > in paragraphs

[Timothy Smith]

John Pywtorak wrote:

>Timothy Smith wrote:
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>>Andy Robinson wrote:
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>>>>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. 
>>>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 i got the lastest stable out of svn and it still errors when
>>attempting to parse & in a paragraph. do i need to write a function to
>>escape this? it's a little annoying that i have to be escaping
>>characters, since now i don't know what else i might need to escape
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>>From a prior post by Robin Becker I quote:
>"you can escape all the < & > fairly easily. eg
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>fld=fld.replace('&','&amp;').replace('<','&lt;').replace('>','&gt;')"
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>I originally used a slightly less compact form and thought this was nice.
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and there isn't anything else i might need to escape?