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diff --git a/Doc/library/html.rst b/Doc/library/html.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0063db6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/html.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +:mod:`html` --- HyperText Markup Language support +================================================= + +.. module:: html + :synopsis: Helpers for manipulating HTML. + +.. versionadded:: 3.2 + +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/html/__init__.py` + +-------------- + +This module defines utilities to manipulate HTML. + +.. function:: escape(s, quote=True) + + 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 characters + (``"``) and (``'``) are also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML + attribute value delimited by quotes, as in ``<a href="...">``. |