Template

gistfile1.pytb

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 1021, in _stack_context_handle_exception
        raise_exc_info((type, value, traceback))
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/stack_context.py", line 258, in _nested
        yield vars
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/stack_context.py", line 228, in wrapped
        callback(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 382, in inner
        self.set_result(key, result)
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 315, in set_result
        self.run()
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 345, in run
        yielded = self.gen.send(next)
      File "/Users/DLC/Code/gkapps/b/handlers/route.py", line 135, in get
        is_app=self.is_app)
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 500, in render
        html = self.render_string(template_name, **kwargs)
      File "/Users/DLC/Code/gkapps/handlers/base.py", line 13, in render_string
        return tornado.web.RequestHandler.render_string(self, template, **kwargs)
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 607, in render_string
        return t.generate(**namespace)
      File "/Users/DLC/.virtualenvs/b/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/template.py", line 261, in generate
        return execute()
      File "web/route_html.generated.py", line 429, in _execute
        return _utf8('').join(_buffer)  # web/base.html:0
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

p.py

#catch link and hashtags or @ mentions
_LINK_RE = re.compile(ur"([@#])([\w]+)") 

def link_elements(text):
  def make_link(m):
    link_type = m.group(1)
    if link_type == u'@':
      link_type = u'/%s' % m.group(2)
    else:
      link_type = u'/tag/%s' % m.group(2)
    return u'<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (link_type, m.group(0))
  return _LINK_RE.sub(make_link, text)

return self.render("t.html", link_elements=link_elements)

t.html

{% extends "base.html" %}


{% block body %}

...

{% if len(comments) > 0 and (not is_app or show_comments) %}                                                                                                 
 <div class="comments">                                                                                                                                     
  {% for comment in comments %}                                                                                                                              
    <a class="username" href="/{{ comment["user"]["username"] }}">{{ comment["user"]["username"] }}</a>                                                      
    <p class="comment">{% apply link_elements %}{{ comment['textContent'] }} {% end %}</p>
  {% end %}                                                                                                                                                  
  </div>                                                                                                                                                     
{% end %}

...

{% end %}

{% end %}