Converting text to html

[Erik Max Francis]

achrist at easystreet.com wrote:

> Is there any recommended code available to convert plain text into
> text that can go into an html document without breaking it?  I
> think that I just have to do these three translations:
> 
>         < =>  <      > =>  >   &  =>  &
> 
> But I'm not sure if there are any others.  I've got to do this
> quite a bit while the user is waiting, so it would be nice to
> have something that did it in a way that was not a lot slower
> than any of the alternatives.

Use the cgi.escape function.  It ha san optional "quote" parameter that
will also convert double quotes to " for you as well.  Normally you
don't need that, but if you plan on putting something in a quoted
section you would.

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