Newbie: How to convert "<" to "&lt;" ( encoding? )

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <zLvC5.79198$F9.1550890 at news.corecomm.net>, lynx  <a at b.c> wrote:
>aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch), in <8rdq3j$qm0$1 at panix6.panix.com>:
>>
>> Actually, it appears that there is in fact no HTMLescape() function.
>
>what about cgi.escape() ?

Ah, there it is.  Okay, I wasn't familiar with the cgi module.  Thanks!
There probably should still be a generic char-to-entity routine based on
the htmlentitydefs module, but that's lower priority.
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