Thank you for the reply.
I ran into the situation because I wanted to copy the raw wikipedia
markup of a wikipedia page, which does use "{{". I had trouble copying
the browser formatted page. Possibly, there could be a special tag for
that. Since the view accepts Python code, there is probably a nice
work around. I will try some things and submit a hopefully clean
suggestion.
On Jan 18, 6:46 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Because the {{ ....}} operator have precedence over everything else.
> when web2py finds
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> {{=PRE("{{this is a string}}"))}
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> interprets it as
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> OPEN{{ =PRE("{{this is a string CLOSE}} "))}
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> when you want to put < and > in HTML you have to escape them with <
> and >
>
> similarly if you want to put {{ and }} inside web2py views you have to
> escape them. In your case the simples solution is:
>
> {{=PRE("{"+"{this is a string}"+}"))}
>
> On Jan 18, 7:59 am, davidjensen <davidjensen...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > It bombs onPRE,CODE, and nowXML
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> > On Jan 18, 3:13 am, nils <n...@olofsson.tv> wrote:
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> > > Hi,
> > > Could you not use {{=XML(string...)}}
> > > Regards,
> > > Nils
> > > On Jan 18, 2012 9:43 a.m., "davidjensen" <davidjensen...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > This is not recognized asa string:
> > > > "{{this is a string}}" in:
> > > > {{=PRE("{{this is a string}}"))} in a web page
> > > > but it works on the command line:
> > > > >>PRE("{{this is a string}}").xml()
