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urllib.quote() and cgi.escape()
Titus Brown
2006-01-19
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:01:36PM +0300, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
-> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:40:57AM -0800, Titus Brown wrote:
-> > How do you escape "'"?
-> >
-> > e.g.
-> >
-> > 
-> >
-> > where value="contains'quotes\"of all kinds"?
->
-> Python: quoted_value = cgi.escape(value, 1)
->
-> HTML  : 

Ahh -- it turns out that htmlescape and cgi.escape(..., 1) both do this
properly, but only for '"', not for "'".

I assume the  up above is technically incorrect because of its
use of single quotes, therefore.  Well, that's easily correctable in
my code...

Thanks, guys!

cheers,
--titus
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