Best way to escape MAKO template itself

[Jinghui Niu]

Hi, I want to have a <%def> that render a mako template. I learned from the documentation that Mako allows you to escape html, url, etc., but how can I tell mako not to interpret those <%! symbols and renders it as it is? Is there a switch that I can kind of turn on and off for this? Thanks.

[Jonathan Vanasco]

http://docs.makotemplates.org/en/latest/syntax.html#expression-escaping

The % sign can also be “escaped”, if you actually want to emit a percent sign as the first non whitespace character on a line, by escaping it as in %%:

[Jonathan Vanasco]

I just realized that might not work for tags.

I suggest using two percent-signs on tags though, then filtering the output to replace occurrences of `<%%` and `</%%` with `<%` and `</%`.  That will probably get you your result fastest, and not involve many edge cases.

[binadam]

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding the question: why can't you use the <%text> tag?

[Jinghui Niu]

I'm not aware of that tag, sorry. Is it in the documentation? Thank you for the clue!

On Feb 26, 2016 10:41 AM, "binadam" <ibna...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding the question: why can't you use the <%text> tag?

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[binadam]

http://docs.makotemplates.org/en/latest/syntax.html#text

[Jinghui Niu]

Ah ha! That's exactly what I was looking for! I was focusing on the wrong part and studied quite a lot on escaping. Thanks.