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

Tom Pinckney thomaspinckney3 at gmail.com
Mon May 12 22:58:47 CEST 2008

Is there any thought to extending escape to escape / unescape to by
default handle characters other than <, >, and &? At a minimum it
should handle arbitrary &xxx; values. Ideally, it would also handle
common other symbolic names besides < > etc.

HTML from common web sites such as nytimes.com frequently has a
variety of characters escaped.

Consider the page at http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/france/provence-and-the-french-riviera/overview.html

It lists its content type as: content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" And contains text like: There’s the Côte d’ Ideally, we would decode &#146 into ’ and &ocirc into ô. Unfortunately, #146 is really an error -- it's not a utf-8 encoded
unicode character but really a MS codepage 1252 character for
apostrophe (apparently may HTML editing systems intermingle unicode
and codepage 1252 content for apostrophes and a few other common
characters). I'm happy to contribute some additional code for these other cases if
people agree it's useful.

On May 12, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Tony Nelson wrote:

At 11:56 PM -0400 5/10/08, Fred Drake wrote:

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. At least it's right next to the valuable quoteattr(). --

TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

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