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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:33:03+00:00

I want to generate HTML pages with rst2html, using my own templates. these templates

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I want to generate HTML pages with rst2html, using my own templates. these templates include many % signs, like in

<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

now, when I call rst2html using the command

rst2html --template=layout2.tpl rst/index.rst > index.html

i get the error

ValueError: unsupported format character ‘”‘ (0x22) at index 827

i found out the problem is that rst2html thinks that the %” is a placeholder.

i already tried escaping the % in the template, like

<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100\%">

but this is not working, the error is the same.

so my question is how i can solve this issue. any help is greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried obvious things: escaping the ‘%’ with ‘%’?

    Here is normal string formatting to display a percent sign in the result:

    >>> print "%d%%" % 100
100%

    Maybe rst2html is the same? (I haven’t tried this in rst2html — I don’t have it installed.)

    Okay, now I’ve installed docutils. This works for me:

    layout2.tpl:

    <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%%">

    Command line:

    C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages>python C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\docutils-0.5-
py2.6.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\rst2html.py --template=c:\temp\layout2.tpl
^Z
<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

    So the result is as desired, I believe.

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