[mod_python] Bugreport: mod_python replaces "\n" on \n

Tue Nov 8 17:16:38 EST 2005

Anton wrote ..
> Here is a result of @including:
> http://anton.lihost.org/c.py?page=01-getopt
> "\n"s inside printf function were replaced by new lines
> 
> Here is the source:
> http://anton.lihost.org/c/01-getopt.c.html
> 
> $ cat templates/c/01-getopt.tmpl
> ...
> <%@ include file="../../c/01-getopt.c.html" %>
> ...
> 
> mod_python/3.2.0b Python/2.3.5

To save people digging through this stuff to work out what it is about,
here is a more succinct example. The module being used is PSP.

# .htaccess

AddHandler mod_python .psp
PythonHandler mod_python.psp

# hello.psp

<html>
<body>
<%@ include file="part.psp" %>
</body>
</html>

# part.psp

<p>
1
2
3\n4
</p>

The '\n' is literally converted into a newline. And thus perhaps
where one would expect to see:

1 2 3\n4

One sees:

1 2 3 4

Now to work out what is going on and what is reasonable.

Graham