A critique of cgi.escape

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.524.1159095305.10491.python-list at python.org>, Fredrik
Lundh wrote:

> Georg Brandl wrote:
> 
>> A function is broken if its implementation doesn't match the
>> documentation.
> 
> or if it doesn't match the designer's intent.  cgi.escape is old enough
> that we would have noticed that, by now...

_We_ certainly have noticed it.