Re: Data Entry

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Data Entry
Date	2016-01-13 22:29 +1100
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
>> To set a multi-word value as an HTML attribute, you'll need to put
>> quotes around it. You might be able to get away with using %r instead
>> of %s, or even just "%s",
>
> That is bad advice that "works" until there is a value containing
> quotes or other markup.
>

Which is why I said "get away with". If you know your data, you might
know that it can have spaces but never quotes, for instance. But
proper escaping is definitely the way to go.

ChrisA

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Data Entry tdsperth@gmail.com - 2016-01-12 17:52 -0800
  Re: Data Entry Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 13:01 +1100
  Re: Data Entry tdsperth@gmail.com - 2016-01-12 18:58 -0800
  Re: Data Entry Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-13 12:21 +0100
  Re: Data Entry Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 22:29 +1100

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