Escape strings for JavaScript using Jinja2?

Question

How do I escape HTML with Jinja2 so that it can be used as a string in JavaScript (jQuery)?

If I were using Django\'s templating system I could write:

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Answer 1

Based on @tometzky here is my Python 3 version:

_js_escapes = {
        '\\': '\\u005C',
        '\'': '\\u0027',
        '"': '\\u0022',
        '>': '\\u003E',
        '<': '\\u003C',
        '&': '\\u0026',
        '=': '\\u003D',
        '-': '\\u002D',
        ';': '\\u003B',
        u'\u2028': '\\u2028',
        u'\u2029': '\\u2029'
}
# Escape every ASCII character with a value less than 32.
_js_escapes.update(('%c' % z, '\\u%04X' % z) for z in range(32))

@register.filter
def escapejs(value):
    return jinja2.Markup("".join(_js_escapes.get(l, l) for l in value))

The usage is exactly the same.