A critique of cgi.escape

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.745.1159306008.10491.python-list at python.org>, Gabriel G
wrote:

> At Tuesday 26/9/2006 04:16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> >> >> What precisely do you think it would "break"?
>> > FWIW, a *lot* of unit tests on *my* generated html code would break...
>>Why did you write your code that way?
> 
> Uhm, maybe because I relied on the published documentation of a
> published standard module?

And if the published documentation said you had to jump off a cliff to use
it, you would do that?