Monday, June 27, 2011

Make string html-safe

To make a string HTML-safe (convert & to &, > to > and so forth):

>>> import cgi
>>>
>>> test_string = "This is <unsafe> string & it contains wrong symbols"
>>>
>>> print cgi.escape(test_string)
This is &lt;unsafe&gt; string &amp; it contains wrong symbols
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