what module can do html encoder??

richard richardjones at optushome.com.au
Mon Dec 13 00:50:30 EST 2004


Leon wrote:
> example:
>         s = ' ' --->  

That's technically not HTML encoding, that's replacing a perfectly valid
space character with a *non-breaking* space character. If that's all you
want to do, then:

  s.replace(' ', ' ')

will do it. If, however, you wish to quote special HTML chars, like <, > and
&, then:

  cgi.escape(s)

will do that for you. From the library reference for "escape(
s[, quote])":

  Convert the characters "&", "<" and ">" in string s to HTML-safe
  sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain such
  characters in HTML. If the optional flag quote is true, the double-quote
  character (""") is also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML
  attribute value, as in <A HREF="...">.


     Richard




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