Python escape usage in django templates by GAE

[Niklas RTZ]

Wow, that really explains it superbly also pointing me to the right
place onwards. Many thanks Chris!

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Niklasro <niklasro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I got problems with escape displaying like junk when upgrading from
>> django 0.96 to 1.2 with google app engine.
>> The code is
>>
>>     # let user choose authenticator
>>        for p in openIdProviders:
>>            p_name = p.split('.')[0] # take "AOL" from "AOL.com"
>>            p_url = p.lower()        # "AOL.com" -> "aol.com"
>>            loginmsg = loginmsg + '<a href="%s">%s</a> ' % ( #'','')
>>                   users.create_login_url(federated_identity=p_url),
>> p_name)
>>        loginmsg = loginmsg + '<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>' %
>> ('login',_("Log in"))
>>
>> And the output is strange. View source show this:
>>
>> <ul><li><a href="ai">Add</a></li><li><a href="li">03 Mar</a></li>
>>
>> <li>Log in<a href="google.com">Google</a> <a
>> href="google.com">Yahoo</a> <a
>> href="google.com">MySpace</a> <a
>> href="google.com">AOL</a> <a
>> href="login">Log in</a></li>
>>
>> </ul>
>>
>> Can you make ad advice how to proceed? Many thanks,
>
> IIRC, at some point after v0.96, Django made
> HTML-character-entity-escaping of values in templates the default
> behavior; your code assumes the opposite, hence your excessive
> escaping problem. I'm sure there's a way to indicate that certain
> values should be treated literally and not get HTML-escaped.
>
> Check the transition docs / release notes, and/or try asking on the
> django-specific mailing list
> (http://groups.google.com/group/django-users )
> (You should probably ask there first with any future Django questions too.)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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