From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:26:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add entry for the html module.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2rc2~69
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3b7a14d16b25f41a98cc3d2491e80528ee82a3d;p=python

Add entry for the html module.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 3f23a14b85..9fcf6bfb1d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -1338,6 +1338,17 @@ The :mod:`sqlite3` module was updated to version 2.6.0.  It has two new capabili
 
 (Contributed by R. David Murray and Shashwat Anand; :issue:`8845`.)
 
+html
+----
+
+A new :mod:`html` module was introduced with only a single function,
+:func:`~html.escape`, which is used for escaping reserved characters from HTML
+markup:
+
+>>> import html
+>>> html.escape('x > 2 && x < 7')
+'x &gt; 2 &amp;&amp; x &lt; 7'
+
 socket
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