[reportlab-users] Naked ampersand

[Paul Keating]

I ran the test suite on the newly installed 64-bit version (revision 3520) and ran into a snag that I had hit earlier with my own integration testing: platypus.paragraph.Paragraph() chokes on a text string with & in it:

ERROR: testNakedAmpersands (test_platypus_paraparser.ParaParserTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\tests\test_platypus_paraparser.py", line 115, in testNakedAmpersands
    p = Paragraph(txt, self.style)
  File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 805, in __init__
    self._setup(text, style, bulletText, frags, cleanBlockQuotedText)
  File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 823, in _setup
    % (_parser.errors[0],text[:min(30,len(text))]))
ValueError: xml parser error (bogus < or &) in paragraph beginning '1 & 2'

I had already fixed my programs to deliver &amp; instead, but seeing this test fail made me realize I shouldn't have to do that, because going by the name, the test clearly expects it to work.

Three test modules trip up on this: test_paragraphs, test_platypus_index, text_platypus_paragraphs.

Paul Keating

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