[pygtk] quoting text for markup

[Neil Dugan]

Darren Hart wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Walter Leibbrandt
> <walter at translate.org.za> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Darren Hart wrote:
>>> When adding text with an & character to a cellrenderertext I get some
>>> rendering glitches (and the actual text doesn't get rendered at all).
>>> Is there a standard mechanism for quoting text destined for the markup
>>> property?
>> Since Pango markup strings are XML strings, you should also quote your
>> markup strings as such. That means that an & should become &amp;.
> 
> RIght & < and > - but my question was if there is some python call to
> do this or if I just have to roll my own.  I recently added this to my
> code base:
> 
> def quote_markup(str):
>     return str.replace("&", "&amp;").replace(">", "&gt;").replace("<", "&lt;")
> 
> It just would be nice if gtk offered something like that - or at least
> didn't break if you put an & in the text.  My version is pretty
> braindead, but if I use it carefully in my app, it works fine.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>> --
>> Walter Leibbrandt                  Software Developer
>> Recent blogs:
>> * Firefox-style button with a pop-up menu
>> http://www.translate.org.za/blogs/walter/en/content/firefox-style-button-pop-menu
> 
> Heh, I recently wrote one of those as well - with some examples from a
> google code project.
> 

I use the 'cgi' module

---- untested code ---
import cgi

dialog = gtk.MessageDialog(....)
dialog.set_markup(cgi.escape("Something & This"))

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