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Converting text to html

Robin Munn rmunn at pobox.com
Fri Apr 4 18:49:03 EST 2003 
achrist at easystreet.com <achrist at easystreet.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there any recommended code available to convert plain text into
> text that can go into an html document without breaking it?  I 
> think that I just have to do these three translations:
> 
> 	< =>  <	> =>  >   & 	=>  &
> 
> But I'm not sure if there are any others.  I've got to do this 
> quite a bit while the user is waiting, so it would be nice to
> have something that did it in a way that was not a lot slower
> than any of the alternatives.  
> 
> Surely someone must have cracked this nut sys.maxint times by now.

You want the cgi module, and specifically the cgi.escape() function.

See http://www.python.org/doc/2.2/lib/module-cgi.html and also the
bottom of http://www.python.org/doc/2.2/lib/module-cgi.html for more.

Hope this helps.

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