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@@ -328,9 +328,9 @@ algorithms implemented in this module in other circumstances.
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:`~xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr` function in the
- :mod:`xml.sax.saxutils` module instead.
+ .. deprecated:: 3.2
+ This function is unsafe because *quote* is false by default, and therefore
+ deprecated. Use :func:`html.escape` instead.
.. _cgi-security:
@@ -508,8 +508,8 @@ Common problems and solutions
.. rubric:: Footnotes
-.. [#] Note that some recent versions of the HTML specification do state what order the
- field values should be supplied in, but knowing whether a request was
- received from a conforming browser, or even from a browser at all, is tedious
- and error-prone.
+.. [#] Note that some recent versions of the HTML specification do state what
+ order the field values should be supplied in, but knowing whether a request
+ was received from a conforming browser, or even from a browser at all, is
+ tedious and error-prone.