In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl wrote: >>> I'm sorry, that's not good enough. How, precisely, would it break >>> "existing code"? Can you come up with an example, or even an >>> explanation of how it could break existing code? >> >> Is that so hard to see? If cgi.escape replaced "'" with an entity >> reference, code that expects it not to do so would break. > > Sorry, that's still not good enough. Why would any code expect such a > thing? >> > that's not up to you to decide, though.
Yes it is. An HTML-quoting function converts a string to its HTML-compatible representation. Since it is now HTML-compatible, any code that tries to work with it afterwards has got to expect it to be HTML-compatible. Which means it has to allow for what HTML allows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
