why are you escaping the double quotes ?
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 6:29:00 PM UTC+2, Spokes wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to include a relatively lengthy passage of text in a
> textarea placeholder; the text contains some terms within double-quotes,
> and the text string is passed to current.T(). The problem is that
> everything following the first double-quote gets truncated. For example,
> let's say this is the text sample, a print statement, for debugging, and
> the textarea code:
>
> my_text = current.T('this is some \"text\" which contains quotes' \
> + 'the text continues on the next line')
> print "\nmy_text:", my_text
> textarea = TEXTAREA(_placeholder = my_text, ...)
>
> The output of the print statement will be the full text string. However,
> the placeholder within the textarea will be "this is some". Any idea as to
> what's going on here, and how to fix it? Thanks.
>
>
>
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