Thanks, Andy, Dieter, Chris, Evan for the discussion What I ended up doing was making a DTML Method called htmlquote_newlineToBr that looks like: <dtml-var theitem html_quote newline_to_br> then calling it from a Python Method like so: hqnl = self.htmlquote_newlineToBr myitem=self.fixedLoc['varLoc1']['varLoc2'] print '<table>' print '<tr><td>%s</td></tr>' % hqnl(theitem=myitem.property1) print '<table>' It turned out to be a bit better code than I thought I wanted :) -- Jim Washington
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Washington" <jwashin@vt.edu> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: [Zope] html_quote in python methods?
I am using Python Methods a lot now.
Good: no more <dtml-with> to get to the objects I need. Yay! no more worrying about closing blocks. Yay!
OK, when I make a syntax error, there is no help in the traceback. My Python is getting better and better as a result.
To give something back, I have a hint that took me a while to figure out:
print '<td width="33%">%s</td>' % (self.thevariable) will not work. The first % needs to be escaped like so:
print '<td width="33%%">%s</td>' % (self.thevariable)
Now, can I use html_quote in a Python Method? I am letting people enter data for redisplay, and I know some Bozo (TM) will somehow put in "<table>" and break the page.
Can I keep this from happening? html_quote does not seem to be in the Python Method namespace.