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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-19 20:40:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-19 20:40:24 (GMT) |
| commit | e3979f776a3837716aa7e566e388332d85314ceb (patch) | |
| tree | 527d7c3f96ea787e82da82bee3ab65a22a49e7c9 | |
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#1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst index 0585a9b..c796ca8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ or as base classes. You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional *entities* parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be - replaced with its corresponding value. + replaced with its corresponding value. The characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and + ``'>'`` are always escaped, even if *entities* is provided. .. function:: unescape(data[, entities]) @@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ or as base classes. You can unescape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional *entities* parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be - replaced with its corresponding value. + replaced with its corresponding value. ``'&'``, ``'<'``, and ``'>'`` + are always unescaped, even if *entities* is provided. .. versionadded:: 2.3 |