Python in a Nutshell

Name

escape

Synopsis

escape(data,entities={})

Returns a copy of string data with characters <, >, and & changed into entity references <, >, and &. entities is a dictionary with strings as keys and values; each substring s of data that is a key in entities is changed in escape’s result string into string entities [ s ]. For example, to escape single and double quote characters, in addition to angle brackets and ampersands, you can call:

xml.sax.saxutils.escape(data,{'"':'"', "'":"'"})