Tom Stambaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Somehow I don't get what you are after. The ' doesn't have to be escaped >> at all if " are used to delimit the string. If ' are used as delimiters >> then \' is a correct escaping. What is the problem with that!? > > If I delimit the string with double quote, then I have to escape every > double quote in whatever I serialize. I'm moving strict html from the server > to the browser, and therefore the value of every tag attribute is delimited > by double quotes. That means that I'd have to escape every double quote, and > there are MANY more of them.
I haven't done much programming with Javascript/AJAX, so why is the following not sufficient? All the double quotes get escaped. >>> link = u"""<a href="asd" title="Peter's child">Click here</a>""" >>> simplejson.dumps(link) '"<a href=\\"asd\\" title=\\"Peter\'s child\\">Click here<\\/a>"' >>> print simplejson.dumps(link) "<a href=\"asd\" title=\"Peter's child\">Click here<\/a>" And ' is a valid delimiter for attributes, so you don't have to use double quotes for them. Marc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
