HTMLParser unescape does not pass < or > unescaped in Pyramid app

Question

The title says most of it. Python3.3 using a Pyramid app framework (-s starter) Adding this code to the views.py controller:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
h = HTMLParser()

string = '<p>Hi there!</p>';
return dict( string=h.unescape(string) )

where return dict(..) is handed off to a template with a simple ${string} marker in it, the result in the web browser is always to show the angle brackets instead of rendering them as tags. I.e, the web page shows: <p>Hi there!</p>

I need to be able to pass user content (html with markup) through to the template for it to render inline. What more do I need to do?

Answer 1

The templating engine is escaping the variable, because just about every templating engine does that.

You need to structure your templates to not escape variables. This differs in mako , chameleon, etc.

IIRC, the starter scaffold uses Chameleon's .pt templates.

If that's what your'e using, this other StackOverflow question answers your question fully: Python Pyramid & Chameleon templating language escapes html