escape.py

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import django.utils.html


def escape(text, existing=django.utils.html.escape):
    # Replace our angular markup string with a different string
    # (which just happens to be the Django comment string)
    # this prevents user-supplied data from being intepreted in
    # our pages by angularjs, thus preventing it from being used
    # for XSS attacks. Note that we use {$ $} instead of the
    # standard {{ }} - this is configured in horizon.framework
    # angularjs module through $interpolateProvider.
    return existing(text).replace('{$', '{%').replace('$}', '%}')


# this will be invoked as early as possible in settings.py
def monkeypatch_escape():
    django.utils.html.escape = escape