[google-appengine] reportlabs PDF generation (pdfmetrics) on my PC solved...

2009-04-17 Thread KenCorey
Oh bother. Just thought I'd post about my stupidity to hopefully make things smoother for someone else. For the record, I'm running XP Pro SP3, Python 2.5, GAE SDK 1.1.9, ReportLab's PDF library 2.3. In my investigations, I'd downloaded reportlab's .msi installer, which installed the pdf

[google-appengine] Newbie Question: Sanitizing web input?

2009-04-15 Thread KenCorey
Hi All, I'm coming from a LAMP-style background where one had to be pretty careful about what's allowed near the database. This is also my first Python code, so it's a learning curve for me. I've heard that the psycopg Postgres SQL interface handles strange HTML sent to it automagically (refer