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Function escape - Converts the special characters '<', '>', and '&'.


SYNOPSIS

import HTMLgen
def escape(text, replace=string.replace)

DESCRIPTION

RFC 1866 specifies that these characters be represented in HTML as &lt; &gt; and &amp; respectively. In Python 1.5 we use the new string.replace() function for speed.

SEE ALSO

HTMLgen


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