Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> (cgi.escape(s, True) is slower than cgi.escape(s), for reasons that are >> obvious for anyone who's looked at the code). > > What you're doing is adding to the reasons why the existing cgi.escape > function is stupidly designed and implemented. The True case is by far the > most common
really? most HTML attributes cannot even contain things that would need to be escaped, while *all* element content needs escaping. and the web contains a lot of element content, as should be obvious to anyone who's been there... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
