How do I html-escape dangerous unsanitized input in jinja2?

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Can I do it inside the template or must it be done in python code?

I have a variable that may contain da<ngero>u&s chars. How do I escape it in jinja2?

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5 Answers

If you want to escape html in your programme, you can do it like this(example):

>>> import jinja2
>>> jinja2.__version__
'2.6'
>>> a
'<script>alert("yy")</script>'
>>> jinja2.escape(a)
Markup(u'&lt;script&gt;alert(&#34;yy&#34;)&lt;/script&gt;')
>>> str(jinja2.escape(a))
'&lt;script&gt;alert(&#34;yy&#34;)&lt;/script&gt;'
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You can do a string check and replace with the corresponding escaped characters.

For example: string=I am a special character <
Do the following:

string.replace("<","&lt ;")

Note that in your code, the space between t and ; has been eliminated. Can't eliminate this here as it will be formatted to show < instead :P

Then use jinja2 to print out the formatted string. The < should appear in your display.

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