Function escape

Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py:18–32

Escape &, <, and > in a string of data. You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional entities parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be replaced with its corresponding value.

(data, entities={})

    return s

def escape(data, entities={}):
    """Escape &, <, and > in a string of data.

    You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as
    the optional entities parameter.  The keys and values must all be
    strings; each key will be replaced with its corresponding value.
    """

    # must do ampersand first
    data = data.replace("&", "&amp;")
    data = data.replace(">", "&gt;")
    data = data.replace("<", "&lt;")
    if entities:
        data = __dict_replace(data, entities)
    return data

def unescape(data, entities={}):
    """Unescape &amp;, &lt;, and &gt; in a string of data.