[Python-Dev] Python 1.7 tokenization feature request (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:23:17 -0600 (CST) 

Greg> Once 1.6 is out the door, would people be willing to consider
Greg> extending Python's token set to make HTML/XML-ish spellings using
Greg> entity references legal?  This would make the following 100% legal
Greg> Python:

Greg> i = 0
Greg> while i < 10:
Greg>     print i & 1
Greg>     i = i + 1

What makes it difficult to pump your Python code through cgi.escape when embedding it? There doesn't seem to be an inverse function to cgi.escape (at least not in the cgi module), but I suspect it could rather easily be written.

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