I want to thank this community -- especially Carsten Haese -- for your patience with my confusion and for your several suggestions about how to resolve the issue. As a newcomer to python-list, I appreciate your willingness to respond to my request and your graciousness in helping me see the contribution I made to my issue.
I now see that, as is often the case, I was asking the wrong question. The immediate problem that this exchange helped me identify is that I needed to escape the json string *again* on its way through my html wrapper. The far more elegant approach sketched by Carsten is the simple act of dropping the apostrophes in my own wrapper. I love that! It works, it's elegant, and it typifies the things that an outside "pair of eyes" can see far more immediately than me. Thank you, Carsten. All in all, this was an extraordinarily helpful exchange. Thank you all, and I hope I can perhaps make similar contributions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
