Looking for a nice CGI-related string representation module
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Sun Feb 2 22:03:56 EST 2003
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:15, Mike McGavin wrote:
> Examples of different representations might include what the user typed
> in verses the escaped version for a SQL string, verses a differently
> escaped version for output as part of an HTML page, verses an integer
> representation if possible, and so on. Being able to naturally add
> representation modes would be a bonus. Maybe the user types in a
> wiki-like representation, such as using *'s for bulleted lists, and the
> module can translate it to an HTML format or SQL format on the fly, and
> so on.
These are spread out all over the place, like cgi.escape, various
quoting done via DB modules, urllib, and others. For markup you'd might
use reST (docutils.sf.net). There's some non-intuitive codecs as well.
But it does take some digging up to find these. It could be useful to
consolidate them into a single interface.
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