Re: escaping only double quotes



You could write a simple escape function.

def escape(html):
"Return the given TEXT with ampersands, quotes and carets
encoded."
return html.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<',
'&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;').replace('"', '&quot;').replace("'",
'&#39;')

.



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