Question

I have a small problem when my code is retrieved by javaScript from Python, i get unicode values to my script where my browser gives an error in the developer console.

The script inside my archive.html page –

<script>
    var results = {{myposts}};
    console.log(results);
</script>

My Python code –

def archive(request):
    test = ["a","b","c"]
    t = loader.get_template("archive.html")
    c = Context({'myposts' : test})
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

I tried c = Context({'myposts' : simplejson.dumps(test)}) , but it gave the problem.
My browsers give me and arror Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token & and my console shows my array with unicode values ['a', 'b', 'c']

How do i make it look like – ["a","b","c"]

What do i change in my Python code or JavaScript

Thanks for the help in advance

Answer 1

Looks like it’s getting HTML-escaped on output. What if you do this?:

var results = {{ myposts|safe }};

(Use with caution — you may want to perform some escaping depending where the data is coming from.)