On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> Fred Drake schrieb: >>>>>> >>>>>> On May 10, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Works for me. The other thing I always use from cgi is escape() -- >>>>>>> will that be available somewhere else too? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> xml.sax.saxutils.escape() would be an appropriate replacement, though the >>>>>> location is a little funky. >>>> >>>> More than a little IMO. :-( >>>> >>> >>> Well, if that function is better than who cares about the location; it >>> will end up in urllib.parse as some function. >> >> It's a trivial function; it shouldn't pull in three packages and lots >> of other cruft. > > So are you saying that it isn't that much better in urllib.parse? That > only cuts the package count down by one.
I didn't mean to say, but it does seem the wrong module -- escape() is for HTML, not for URLs. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
