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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-15 15:57:45 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-15 15:57:45 (GMT)
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#2830: add html.escape() helper and move cgi.escape() uses in the standard library to it. It defaults to quote=True and also escapes single quotes, which makes casual use safer. The cgi.escape() interface is not touched, but emits a (silent) PendingDeprecationWarning.
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@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
+ characters by default. Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.
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- Issue 9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
debugging in doctests.