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html

HTML escaping and unescaping library, matching Python’s html module.

Available Functions

Function Description
escape(s) Escape &, <, >, " and ' so s can be embedded in HTML.
unescape(s) Convert named and numeric entities (&lt;, &#60;, &#x3c;) back to characters.

Example

import html

safe = html.escape("<script>alert('xss')</script>")
print(safe)          # &lt;script&gt;alert(&#x27;xss&#x27;)&lt;/script&gt;
print(html.escape('Say "hi" & bye'))  # Say &quot;hi&quot; &amp; bye

print(html.unescape("Tom &amp; Jerry"))      # Tom & Jerry
print(html.unescape("&#60;b&#x3e; &quot;"))  # <b> "

original = '<div class="test">Content</div>'
print(html.unescape(html.escape(original)) == original)  # True

Python Compatibility

  • unescape(s) - ✅ Compatible
  • escape(s, quote=True) - ✅ Compatible

See Also

  • html.parser - HTML parsing for extracting tags and data
  • string - String constants for character classification
  • regex - Regular expressions for text processing