In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> Georg Brandl wrote: >>> >>>> A function is broken if its implementation doesn't match the >>>> documentation. >>> >>> or if it doesn't match the designer's intent. cgi.escape is old enough >>> that we would have noticed that, by now... >> >> _We_ certainly have noticed it. > > you're not the designer...
I don't have to be. Whoever the designer was, they had not properly thought through the uses of this function. That's quite obvious already, to anybody who works with HTML a lot. So the function is broken and needs to be fixed. If you're worried about changing the semantics of a function that keeps the same "cgi.escape" name, then fine. We delete the existing function and add a new, properly-designed one. _That_ will be a wake-up call to all the users of the existing function to fix their code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
