In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Bishop wrote: > People also use that function to escape non-HTML too - if they are using > it as documented, and it produces the correct results for them, great. > Note that the documentation doesn't say that input has to be HTML, nor > that output must be used as HTML.
It says that the input is converted to "HTML-safe sequences". > It just describes the transformation > that it does clearly and unambiguously and can quite happily be used for > generating quoted text for use in, say, XML documents. And all those character entities references are also valid in XML. > Also, because Python has a > conservative policy on backwards incompatible changes, you are protected > from some wanker going and changing the HTML safe mappings arbitrarily, > say using numerical entity references instead of >, < and &. Why would that be wrong? It would still be consistent with the documentation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
