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I'm having an issues with bottle python where I have the following code
import glob
import os
from bottle import run, route, error, template
from Find_Posts import hyperlink_postnames
currentdir = os.getcwd()
def hyperlink_postnames():
hyperlink_filelist = []
os.chdir(currentdir + "\\Blog_Posts\\")
for files in glob.glob("*.txt"):
hyperlink_filelist.append('<a href = "/blog/' + files + '"' + '>' + str(os.path.splitext(files)[0]) + '</a>')
return hyperlink_filelist
which returns the following list
['<a href = "/blog/post1.txt">post1</a>', '<a href = "/blog/post2.txt">post2</a>', '<a href = "/blog/post3.txt">post3</a>', '<a href = "/blog/post4.txt">post4</a>', '<a href = "/blog/post5.txt">post5</a>', '<a href = "/blog/post6.txt">post6</a>']
which is in turn fed to the following bottlepy route:
@route('/blog/')
def postnames():
postlist = hyperlink_postnames()
tpl_out = template('blogroll', postlist = postlist)
return tpl_out
which is fed into the blogroll.tpl template:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<div>
<p><b>Blog Roll</b></p>
%for postlist in postlist:
<li> {{ postlist }}
%end
</div>
my problem is when I render the template in the browser it turns the postlist variable in the template into plain text and not html (which is what's written inside the list), However if I change the bottle code to read like this (bypassing the template) it renders the postlist variable as html but not inside the template which makes the code useless:
@route('/blog/')
def postnames():
postlist = hyperlink_postnames()
tpl_out = template('blogroll', postlist = postlist)
return postlist #return the variable directly bypassing the template renders the list as html
does anyone have any ideas as to why this happening?
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asked Mar 12 '26 00:03
HTML special characters are escaped automatically to prevent XSS attacks.
Use an exclamation mark at the start of your template statement to indicate that you really want to include HTML:
%for postlist in postlist:
<li> {{ !postlist }}
%end
See the documentation on inline statements.
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