A critique of cgi.escape

Tue Sep 26 03:16:24 EDT 2006

In message <mailman.633.1159251691.10491.python-list at python.org>, Gabriel G
wrote:

> At Monday 25/9/2006 11:08, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> 
>> >> What precisely do you think it would "break"?
>> >
>> > existing code, and existing tests.
>>
>>I'm sorry, that's not good enough. How, precisely, would it break
>>"existing code"? Can you come up with an example, or even an
>>explanation of how it *could* break existing code?
> 
> FWIW, a *lot* of unit tests on *my* generated html code would break...

Why did you write your code that way?