title: <a></a> tags not being rendered when put in quotes
body: <p>I know that this is a trivial error but I am not being able to debug it.<br>
  When I put  tags in quotes and dynamically generate a string for a link, the 'link' is not generated. Rather the '&lt;', '>' are being rendered as they are. (I am trying to run a python script in GAE which uses django templating framework) </p>
  
  <p>Following is my code:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template  
  
  ...  
  
  html = html + template.render('templates/footer.html',
                                            {'links': 'Enter &lt;a href="/"&gt;another sighting&lt;/a&gt;.'})  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The following is the 'footer.html' in templates:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;
  {{ links }}
  &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And following is the output:  </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5JmHL.png" alt="Output on browser"></p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated. (This is the situation in both Firefox and Google Chrome)</p>