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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-08-02 21:51:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-08-02 21:51:18 (GMT) |
| commit | 18009342850e71775e7ebac7b6a743fbe3265c78 (patch) | |
| tree | 62c5a5a2da2d426457419f61193d286fd4f18638 | |
| parent | 75f2f8206cbe7a991554e22c44161e9b3b789692 (diff) | |
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#9061: warn that single quotes are never escaped.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/cgi.rst b/Doc/library/cgi.rst index 17482d7..cfc6953 100644 --- a/Doc/library/cgi.rst +++ b/Doc/library/cgi.rst @@ -324,10 +324,13 @@ algorithms implemented in this module in other circumstances. Convert the characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and ``'>'`` in string *s* to HTML-safe sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain such characters in HTML. If the optional flag *quote* is true, the quotation mark - character (``'"'``) is also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML - attribute value, as in ``<A HREF="...">``. If the value to be quoted might - include single- or double-quote characters, or both, consider using the - :func:`quoteattr` function in the :mod:`xml.sax.saxutils` module instead. + character (``"``) is also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML + attribute value delimited by double quotes, as in ``<a href="...">``. Note + that single quotes are never translated. + + If the value to be quoted might include single- or double-quote characters, + or both, consider using the :func:`quoteattr` function in the + :mod:`xml.sax.saxutils` module instead. .. _cgi-security: |