[reportlab-users] Naked ampersand

[Robin Becker]

On 13/09/2010 11:47, Paul Keating wrote:

> 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)

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> 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'

>

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OK I have downloaded and installed

http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-daily.win-amd64-py2.6.exe

in my win xp 64 bit vm.

I had to manually obtain the tests from svn, but these all pass if I have also 
installed PIL from here

http://www.mediafire.com/?20h3zeimnke

not sure who built that, but it seems genuine and my clamwin doesn't whine about 
it. I tested test_platypus_paraparser.py explicitly and it doesn't complain.

However, if I remove the sgmlop.pyd from site packages, then the above error 
does occur. I think that's because we then fall back to 
reportlab.lib.xmllib.SlowParser which is more picky. I suppose that's a bug, but 
it is called xmllib and I'm farly sure that the modern python supported versions 
are probably even more pedantic.
-- 
Robin Becker