[Python-Dev] Copying cgi.parse_qs() to the urllib.parse module

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Fred Drake schrieb:
>>
>> On May 10, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> Works for me. The other thing I always use from cgi is escape() --
>>> will that be available somewhere else too?
>>
>>
>> xml.sax.saxutils.escape() would be an appropriate replacement, though  the
>> location is a little funky.

More than a little IMO. :-(

> Ideally it would be xml.escape(). Perhaps there are more of these generally-
> useful XML thingies to put there?

Not really -- I'd rather see the xml package as a pure container, with
all its contents in submodules (or subpackages).

Also, I don't see this exclusive to XML -- HTML isn't XML (yet).

> Georg
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