Python Desktop Server Weblog 12.10.2003

Little bug with PyDS and encoded entities

There is a small bug with HTML entities in PyDS: if you create postings with entities, they are stored fine. But if you edit this posting (or story or some other places where this problem exists), the entity get's decoded. This creates problems if you want to put in literal entities for example in source snippets that include HTML templates or stuff like that. For example &amp;lt; would be decoded one step with each edit, first being reduced to &lt; and then to <.

If you experience this problem, try the CVS version. This includes a patch for this problem (each textareas default value is now protected by a call to macros.quoteHTML).