Htmlizing text

[William Park]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:03:46PM +0000, Phil Hunt wrote:
> 
> Is there a function in the standard Python library to HTML-ize text,
> i.e. to replace 'a > b & c < d' with 'a > b & c < d'?
> 
> (I realize this can be done with regular expressions, but is there
> an easy way?)
> 
> -- 
> Phil Hunt - - - phil at comuno.com

The following function replaces [<&>] unconditionally.
    def escapeall(s):
	s = string.replace(s, '&', '&')		# do this first
	s = string.replace(s, '<', '<')
	s = string.replace(s, '>', '>')
	return s
I used this in my 'HTMLtag' module which generates HTML tags.

William.