replacing characters within a string

[Chris Rebert]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:16 PM, John Smith <swader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I coded a python script that lets me parse a csv file into html code with a
> certain format, but I would like to replace every "<" and ">" character that
> appears within each column entry of the csv file (they are parsed as
> strings) with the html equivalents of "<" and ">".

You want the cgi.escape() function -
http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html#cgi.escape

Cheers,
Chris
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>
> example csv file row:
> "FIXED","All","Enable <audio> entry"
>
> and I want to replace <audio> with <audio> before I do a
>
> "<p>This is a " + str(array[0]) + " bug that applies to " + str(array[1]) +
> " platforms and has the description: " + str(array[2]) + ".</p>"
>
> to get the following html code:
>
> <p>This is a FIXED bug that applies to All platforms and has the
> description: Enable <audio> entry.</p>
>
> (sometimes < appears twice or thrice and sometimes only > appears so they
> are not necessarily appearing together, e.g. -> instead of <something>)
>
> How should I go about doing it?
>
> Regards.
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