Am Fr., 4. Juni 2021 um 15:42 Uhr schrieb Richard Damon <
[email protected]>:

> I think one fundamental problem is that you can’t detect programmatically
> if a string needs to be escaped or not.
>
> For instance, the sequence &amp; might be an already escaped & or it might
> be the text to tell you how to escape an ampersand and needs to be
> converted to &amp;amp;
>
>
That's a problem which Python can't solve. This is up to the consumer
of InterpolationTemplate.

In the django world, it is solved via conditional_escape():
https://github.com/django/django/blob/3.2.4/django/utils/html.py#L92


Regards,
  Thomas



> Promoting sloppy coding by handling the most common cases is the way to it
> easier to create security vulnerabilities.
>
> Maybe if escaped strings had a different type than unescaped strings, but
> then you need a bunch of different types for different rules for escaping.
>
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