A critique of cgi.escape

[Scott David Daniels]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Another useful function is this:
> 
>     def JSString(Str) :
>         """returns a JavaScript string literal that evaluates to Str....

You can do this more simply:

     _map = {"\\" : "\\\\", "\"" : "\\\"", "\t" : "\\t", "\n" : "\\n"}
     def JSString(Str) :
         mapped = [_map.get(Ch, Ch) for Ch in Str]
         return "\"" + "".join(mapped) + "\""



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--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org