A critique of cgi.escape

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Jon Ribbens  <jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <Xns98499CF9DCEE4duncanbooth at 127.0.0.1>, Duncan Booth wrote:
>> I guess you've never seen anyone write tests which retrieve some generated 
>> html and compare it against the expected value. If the page contains any 
>> unescaped quotes then this change would break it.
>You're right - I've never seen anyone do such a thing. It sounds like
>a highly dubious and very fragile sort of test to me, of very limited
>use.

So what sort of test would you use, that doesn't involve comparing
actual output against expected output?

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