[Baypiggies] Html encoding question

[Joshua Gallagher]

Hi Ken,

If you want the string 'where x < z*5, and x > z+2' to show up as
text, you could also put it within the <pre></pre> html tags.

For example:
sampleCode = '<pre>' + 'where x < z*5, and x > z+2' + '</pre>'

All the best,

Joshua

On 6/7/07, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Ken Seehart <ken at seehart.com> wrote:
> > Is there a handy function somewhere that converts a string so that the
> > result will display as plain text in an html document?  Somewhat
> > analogous to urlencode but not exactly.
> >
> > So for example
> >
> >  >>> html_str_encode('where x < z*5, and x > z+2')
> > 'where x &lt; z*5, and x &gt; z+2'
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I've seen this before, but I just can't seem to find it
> > today.  Maybe I just need more coffee.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Ken
>
> >>> import cgi
> >>> cgi.escape('where x < z*5, and x > z+2')
> 'where x &lt; z*5, and x &gt; z+2'
>
> It's more simple than complete, but it works for the standard stuff.
>
> Best Regards,
> -jj
>
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