It's all written in the source :-) This is the html_quote method used by dtml (lib/python/DocumenTemplate/html_quote.py) # split off into its own module for aliasing without circrefs from cgi import escape from ustr import ustr def html_quote(v, name='(Unknown name)', md={}): return escape(ustr(v), 1) I think also urllib can help you: import urllib print urllib.quote('this is a string') Best regards Petter Enholm -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Thierry FLORAC Sent: 12. juni 2003 11:39 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] html_quote in Python script Hi, Is it possible, and how, to mimmic the "<dtml-var ... html_quote>" statement in a Python script using "print ..." ?? Thanks, Thierry -- Linux every day, keeps Dr Watson away... http://gpc.sourceforge.net -- http://www.ulthar.net _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )