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Escaping HTML
The cgi module that comes with Python has an escape() function:
However, it doesn't escape characters beyond &, <, and >.
Here's a small snippet that will let you escape those as well:
Unescaping HTML
Undoing the escaping performed by cgi.escape() isn't directly supported by the library. This can be accomplished using a fairly simple function, however:
Note that this will undo exactly what cgi.escape() does; it's easy to extend this to undo what the html_escape() function above does. Note the comment that converting the & must be last; this avoids getting strings like "&lt;" wrong.
This approach is simple and fairly efficient, but is limited to supporting the entities given in the list. A more thorough approach would be to perform the same processing as an HTML parser. Using the HTML parser from the standard library is a little more expensive, but many more entity replacements are supported "out of the box." The table of entities which are supported can be found in the htmlentitydefs module from the library; this is not normally used directly, but the htmllib module uses it to support most common entities. It can be used very easily:
This version has the additional advantage that it supports character references (things like A) as well as entity references.
A more efficient implementation would simply parse the string for entity and character references directly (and would be a good candidate for the library, if there's really a need for it outside of HTML data).
See Also
Discussion
LionKimbro: Is there anything in the standard library for going the other way? Is there something where you can give it "&" and get back "&"? Perhaps in the XML libraries? I looked, but did not see anything. DOM, SAX- wouldn't be there. Not exactly XML-RPC either. Date(2005-06-10T16:35:16Z)
FredDrake: EscapingXml includes more than you probably wanted to know. And if you want, I can toss in an approach using xmlrpclib as well.
LionKimbro: Yyyy....ow. Thank you. Thank you very much. Date(2005-06-13T14:41:02Z)