Yeah, I suppose it's not necessary as long as " within the string 
never causes any problems.

Anthony

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:47:10 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote:
>
> but why since data=dict(options='{"mode" : "calbox"}') works fine ?
>
> Il giorno martedì 29 ottobre 2013 13:49:12 UTC+1, Anthony ha scritto:
>>
>> Anyway, it might not be a bad idea to allow the option to use single 
>> quotes around an HTML attribute, though not sure of the best way to achieve 
>> that. Maybe use a double underscore to identify such attributes:
>>
>> INPUT(..., **{'__data-options': XML('{"mode":"calbox"}')})
>>
>> or add a "json" argument to specify attributes to be treated as JSON:
>>
>> INPUT(..., json={'data-options': '{"mode":"calbox"}'})
>>
>> In the above case, it would know to use single quotes and to wrap the 
>> string in XML(). Perhaps it could also be smart enough to take a dict or 
>> list and automatically convert to a JSON string.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:36:19 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> @Anthony
>>>>
>>>> from module import *
>>>> def f():
>>>>   header = ...
>>>>   content = GRID(... ( # CALBOX used to create one of the columns
>>>>   footer = ....
>>>>   return {'page':PAGE(header, content, footer)}
>>>>
>>>
>>> I guess it's hard to say without knowing what those other functions do, 
>>> but I don't think web2py is not doing the escaping (at least, if you 
>>> include the XML object I suggested either directly in a page or within an 
>>> HTML helper, the quotes do not get escaped when the view is serialized).
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>

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