Albert> The html.nl2br function appears to do what I want, but it alters
    Albert> the data.  Meaning, I'm resubmitting the data back into another
    Albert> form but it has 
 tags in it.

Are you calling html.nl2br correctly?  It works for me:

    >>> from quixote import html
    >>> sometext = """
    ... line 1
    ... line 2
    ... line 3
    ... """
    >>> btext = html.nl2br(sometext)
    >>> btext
    \nline 1
\nline 2
\nline 3
\n'>
    >>> sometext
    '\nline 1\nline 2\nline 3\n'

sometext is unmodified.  That's what I'd insert into the hidden tag.

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