Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max M wrote: > >> Lawrence is right that the escape method doesn't work the way he expects >> it to. >> >> Rewriting a library module simply because a developer is surprised is a >> *very* bad idea. > > I'm not surprised. Disappointed, yes. Verging on disgust at some comments in > this thread, yes. But "surprised" is what a lot of users of the existing > cgi.escape function are going to be when they discover their code isn't > doing what they thought it was.
Why should they be surprised? The documentation states clearly what cgi.escape() does (as does the docstring). Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
