A critique of cgi.escape

[Dan Bishop]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Jon Ribbens wrote:
>
> > Making cgi.escape always escape the '"' character would not break
> > anything, and would probably fix a few bugs in existing code. Yes,
> > those bugs are not cgi.escape's fault, but that's no reason not to
> > be helpful. It's a minor improvement with no downside.
>
> the "improvement with no downside" would bloat down the output for
> everyone who's using the function in the intended way,

"Unless" "your" "CGI" "scripts" "output" "text" "like" "this," "I"
"think" "it's" "absurd" "to" "consider" "the" "bloat" "significant."