On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:15:35 -0500, Gerald Britton wrote:
> I see that Python 3.2 includes a new module -- html -- with a single
> function -- escape. I would like to know how this function differs from
> xml.sax.saxutils.escape and, if there is no difference (or only a minor
> one), what the need is for this new module and its lone function
Unless the html API has changed radically since Python 3.2a, I believe
you are mistaken.
[steve@sylar ~]$ python3.2
Python 3.2a1 (r32a1:83318, Aug 12 2010, 02:17:22)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import html
>>> help(html)
which gives me the following information:
Help on package html:
NAME
html - # This directory is a Python package.
FILE
/usr/local/lib/python3.2/html/__init__.py
MODULE DOCS
http://docs.python.org/library/html
PACKAGE CONTENTS
entities
parser
So html is not a module, but a package that includes two sub-modules,
entities and parser. I see no sign of anything called "escape" in either
the top level html package, or either of the sub-modules, and the word
"escape" only appears twice in the whole package, both times as
"unescape":
[steve@sylar ~]$ cd /usr/local/lib/python3.2/html/
[steve@sylar html]$ ls
entities.py __init__.py parser.py __pycache__
[steve@sylar html]$ grep -i escape *.py
parser.py: attrvalue = self.unescape(attrvalue)
parser.py: def unescape(self, s):
So I don't know what you are looking at, but I don't believe it is the
standard html package in the Python standard library. Perhaps you have
accidentally shadowed it with your own html module? Try this:
>>> import html
>>> html.__file__
'/usr/local/lib/python3.2/html/__init__.py'
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Steven
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