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In article <nfsC5.23$fn2.51625 at news.pacbell.net>,
Eric <ewalstad at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>The subject says it all.  I'm sure there's a Python function that will
>convert:
>"<"  to  "<"
>">"  to  ">"

Actually, it appears that there is in fact no HTMLescape() function.
Should be fairly straightforward to use htmlentitydefs to solve this
problem, but I agree that it ought to be built into htmllib.  I'll check
into this on python-dev.  Do you need help writing code that uses
htmlentitydefs?
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