Darren Hart wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Walter Leibbrandt
> <wal...@translate.org.za> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Darren Hart wrote:
>>> When adding text with an & character to a cellrenderertext I get some
>>> rendering glitches (and the actual text doesn't get rendered at all).
>>> Is there a standard mechanism for quoting text destined for the markup
>>> property?
>> Since Pango markup strings are XML strings, you should also quote your
>> markup strings as such. That means that an & should become &.
>
> RIght & < and > - but my question was if there is some python call to
> do this or if I just have to roll my own. I recently added this to my
> code base:
>
> def quote_markup(str):
> return str.replace("&", "&").replace(">", ">").replace("<", "<")
>
> It just would be nice if gtk offered something like that - or at least
> didn't break if you put an & in the text. My version is pretty
> braindead, but if I use it carefully in my app, it works fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
>> --
>> Walter Leibbrandt Software Developer
>> Recent blogs:
>> * Firefox-style button with a pop-up menu
>> http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/walter/en/content/firefox-style-button-pop-menu
>
> Heh, I recently wrote one of those as well - with some examples from a
> google code project.
>
I use the 'cgi' module
---- untested code ---
import cgi
dialog = gtk.MessageDialog(....)
dialog.set_markup(cgi.escape("Something & This"))
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