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[Barry A. Warsaw]

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Subject: htmllib.HTMLescape()
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:26:32 -0700 (PDT)
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Someone just pointed out on c.l.py that we need an HTMLescape() function
that takes a string and converts special characters to entities.  I'm
not on python-dev, so could you please forward this and find out whether
I need to run a PEP?
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