[reportlab-users] Re: usersGuide Platypus including '<' in text

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Paulino wrote:
> You can use the re module to replace each character for it's escape 
> sequence in your paragraphs:
> 
> >>> string = 'smtih & smith'
> >>> import re
>  >>> re.sub('&', '&', string)

Simpler: string.replace('&', '&')

Or even simpler:

 >>> string = 'smith & wesson'
 >>> from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
 >>> escape(string)
'smith & wesson'

-- Christoph