It doesn't matter if the double quotes are escaped or not escaped (I was
trying different things in an attempt to get it to work) - either way, the
text will be truncated after the first double quote.
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 2:13:24 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote:
>
> 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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