A critique of cgi.escape

[Jon Ribbens]

In article <mailman.676.1159276577.10491.python-list at python.org>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> the same documentation tells people what function to use if they
> want to quote *every-thing* that might need to be quoted, so if
> people did actually understand everything that was written in a
> reasonably clear way, this thread wouldn't even exist.

The fact that you don't understand that that's not true is the reason
you've been getting into such a muddle in this thread.