Escape html in python?

Question

i have a but string might contain \", what should I do to escape it?

Example:

__string__ = t         


        

Answer 1

import cgi
s = cgi.escape('test".jpg', True)

http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html#cgi.escape

Note that the True flag tells it to escape double quotes. If you need to escape single quotes as well (if you're one of those rare individuals who use single quotes to surround html attributes) read the note in that documentation link about xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr(). The latter does both kinds of quotes, though it is about three times as slow:

>>> timeit.Timer( "escape('asdf\"asef', True)", "from cgi import escape").timeit()
1.2772219181060791
>>> timeit.Timer( "quoteattr('asdf\"asef')", "from xml.sax.saxutils import quoteattr").timeit()
3.9785079956054688