[reportlab-users] Paragraph text with &

[Juha Tuomala]

On Friday 02 February 2007 14:42, Juha Ruotsalainen wrote:

> I'm creating a paragraph this way:

> para = XPreformatted( contentText, style ),

> 

> where the contentText contains "Jim, Joe & Jill"

> 

> Now Paragraph's _setup-method dies on that ampersand. To be precise,

> _parser.parse(text,style) is the quitter. It complains about that

> ampersand being at the beginning of a line. I inserted some debug

> print into the parse method of Paraparser, and I found out that it

> splits my text into components, and one of those components is a line

> containing, at the beginning of the line, only that ampersand.


Add:

	text = text.replace('&', '&')

before your Paragraph and it should work.


Tuju

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