Bug? cgi.escape(int)

[Thomas Guettler]

Max M wrote:

> Thomas Guettler wrote:
> 
> 
>> It would be nice if cgi.escape(int) would not
>> throw an exception.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> 
> 
> Why? Isn't escape supposed to get a string as an input? Passing it an 
> int is meaningless.


No, it is not meaningless. I have arbitrary objects which I want to
write out to a html table.

if cgi.escape(foo) would do a foo=str(foo) it would possible to
escape integers and floats, too.

Yes, I can do foo=str(foo) myself before calling escape,
but this feature would hurt noone.

  thomas