On Aug 2, 2:09 pm, Jay Loden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Aug 2, 1:45 pm, Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a package that converts a string that contains special > >> characters in xml to to literal value. For instance, converts > >> stringhttp://myhome/¶mtohttp://myhome/¶m. > > >> Thanks in advance > > > I've seen examples using the HTMLgen module. But here's another script > > I just found: > > >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-November/016814.html > > > I would think that you could use regular expressions too. > > > Mike > > I would reccommend against using the example above or using regular > expressions, since both are likely to miss corner cases, and the stdlib has > an encode function that's already designed for this task > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.saxutils.html > > The encode() function in xml.sax.saxutils also is extensible, should you run > into any entities that it fails to escape in the current implementation. > > -Jay
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