Paul Rubin wrote: > Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> o cgi.escape is not meant for serious web application development, > > What is it meant for then? Why should the library ever implement > anything in a half-assed way unsuitable for serious application > development, if it can supply a robust implementation instead?
I'd have to dig through the revision history to be sure, but I imagine that cgi.escape was originally only used in the cgi module (and there only in it's various print_* functions). Then it started being used by other core Python modules e.g. cgitb, DocXMLRPCServer. The "mistake", if there was one, was probably that escape wasn't spelled _escape and got documented in the LaTeX documentation system. All of this is just speculation though. Cheers, Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
