Jon Ribbens wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max M wrote: >> Oh ... because you cannot see a use case for that *documented* >> behaviour, it must certainly be wrong? > > No, but if nobody else can find one either, that's a clue that maybe > it's safe to change. > > Here's a point for you - the documentation for cgi.escape says that > the characters "&", "<" and ">" are converted, but not what they are > converted to.
It says "to HTML-safe sequences". That's reasonably clear without the need to reproduce the exact replacements for each character. If anyone doesn't know what is meant by this, he shouldn't really write apps using the cgi module before doing a basic HTML course. Or use the source. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
