[Zope] Python seems to render html, can this be turned off or escaped?

Thu Dec 16 14:44:26 EST 2004

From: "Dennis Allison" <allison at sumeru.stanford.EDU>
>
> A <pre> ... </pre> tag would be a better choice, IMHO.
>

<pre> does not stop the browser from parsing/interpreting embedded html.

try:

docContents='<html><body><b>Some text</b></body></html>'
return '<pre>'+docContents+'</pre>'

Jonathan

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Guidry, Wayne wrote:
>
> > Ok, thanks for the info
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> > The problem is not with python, it is that when you click on the test
> > tab at the top of the python script editing page (within the ZMI) the
> > data is being displayed in your web browser - which interprets html
> > commands.
> >
> > If you want to see the html tags (for debugging purposes) when you click
> > on the 'test' tab try something like:
> >
> > return '<textarea>'+mystring+'</textarea>
> >
> > This will do two things:  (1) prove that it is your browser interpreting
> > the html tags in the string (because your browser will create a textarea
> > field) and (2) allow you to see the actual contents of 'mystring'
> >
> > If you dont want to display the data when you get back to dtml, use the
> > dtml-call tag or the dtml-let tag to store the data in a local variable
> > for future use (instead of calling the python script with dtml-var).
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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