[Zope] Simple Syntax Question

James W. Howe jwh@allencreek.com
Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:24:26 -0500


At 05:17 PM 3/7/00 -0500, glyph@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>On  7 Mar, James W. Howe wrote:
> > I have a method that I want to return a list.  The problem is that one of
> > the items in the list needs to have an embedded single quote
> > character.  I'm currently returning the list like this:
> >
> > <dtml-return "['item1', 'item2', 'item3']">
> >
> > how can I recode this so that I can return items like "John's"?
>
>This is just a guess (I'm a Zope newbie too) but I believe
>
><dtml-return "['John\'s', 'Mary\'s']">
>
>Will work.

I forgot to try that (I tried using alternative quote characters and that 
didn't work).

Thanks.

James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103