django: HTML escaping inside a function

stateless · 10-11-2013, 08:57 PM

In django: If you need to do some HTML escaping inside of a function (not afterwards in the template) does django have a function for that? Can't seem to find it through the danjo documentation search.

Robhogg · 10-12-2013, 07:55 AM

By HTML escaping, do you mean replacing special characters with HTML entities? You can do that with cgi.escape():

Code:

>>> import cgi
>>> print cgi.escape('<p>Hello, World!</p>')
&lt;p&gt;Hello, World!&lt;/p&gt;

dugan · 10-12-2013, 01:20 PM

django.utils.html.escape