Oops!
this is brilliant!
Thank you!!
I just had to introduce one extra step due to the way how json dumps
strings:
if string.startswith('"') and string.endswith('"'):
string = string[1:-1]
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 3:09 PM Val K <valq7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Enter code here...
>
> Eureka! there is json!
> safe_js_str = json.dumps(string_with_any_bad_char)
>
> now you can insert it in js code as
> 'var s = %s' % safe_js_str # it is already quoted
>
>
>
> On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 9:54:43 PM UTC+3, Vlad wrote:
>>
>> the problem is that I don't know what they may enter, it could be
>> anything.
>> I just need to feed back whatever they entered in the middle of some js
>> action.
>> the objective is that whatever they enter - any characters - should
>> simply be taken as a string by the browser
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:52 PM Val K <valq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think there is no universal way because js is just a string in python
>>> context,
>>> you have to escape quotes with backslash (replace " with \") where it is
>>> required to prevent crumbling strings in js-code
>>> What is the second char? dot?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 8:32:08 PM UTC+3, Vlad wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a form with an input text field.
>>>>
>>>> The form is submitted via POST.
>>>>
>>>> The vars value is read and passed over into response.js to run some
>>>> action.
>>>>
>>>> All works perfect until that field has special characters, like " and
>>>> the like. Javascript does't like it. It doesn't see that as a string, but
>>>> rather as a part of the js code so it breaks.
>>>>
>>>> How do I encode / convert that field's value so that it wouldn't affect
>>>> html/js on the output?
>>>>
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