From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:40:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape. X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~526 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3979f776a3837716aa7e566e388332d85314ceb;p=python #1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst index 0585a9bfe1..c796ca8c86 100644 --- a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst +++ b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ or as base classes. You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional *entities* parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be - replaced with its corresponding value. + replaced with its corresponding value. The characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and + ``'>'`` are always escaped, even if *entities* is provided. .. function:: unescape(data[, entities]) @@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ or as base classes. You can unescape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional *entities* parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be - replaced with its corresponding value. + replaced with its corresponding value. ``'&'``, ``'<'``, and ``'>'`` + are always unescaped, even if *entities* is provided. .. versionadded:: 2.3