Correction: I meant __builtin__.getattr method and not the other one I mentioned. :-) Thanks Raja
Raja Raman Sundararajan skrev: > Hello guys, > I have data stored in the database which has special characters > like <, > etc. > Case 1: Whenever I wanted to present the output to a browser > I need to escape these special characters into the browser > equivalent like < > etc.( for example by using the cgi module) > Case 2: Whenever I wanted to present the output to some client other > than a browser, I wanted to present the data as it is stored in the > database. > > For doing this I thought of overriding the __builtin__.__getattr__ > method. > I am wondering if there is any other way of achieving this. I have > loads of files that get the attribute values of objects stored in the > database and I do not want to manually change the way of DB access in > those files. I rather prefer a centralized way to achieve this. > > Good inputs are always appreciated. > :-) > Raja -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list