1 :mod:`html` --- HyperText Markup Language support 2 ================================================= 3 4 .. module:: html 5 :synopsis: Helpers for manipulating HTML. 6 7 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/html/__init__.py` 8 9 -------------- 10 11 This module defines utilities to manipulate HTML. 12 13 .. function:: escape(s, quote=True) 14 15 Convert the characters ``&``, ``<`` and ``>`` in string *s* to HTML-safe 16 sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain such 17 characters in HTML. If the optional flag *quote* is true, the characters 18 (``"``) and (``'``) are also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML 19 attribute value delimited by quotes, as in ``<a href="...">``. 20 21 .. versionadded:: 3.2 22 23 24 .. function:: unescape(s) 25 26 Convert all named and numeric character references (e.g. ``>``, 27 ``>``, ``&x3e;``) in the string *s* to the corresponding unicode 28 characters. This function uses the rules defined by the HTML 5 standard 29 for both valid and invalid character references, and the :data:`list of 30 HTML 5 named character references <html.entities.html5>`. 31 32 .. versionadded:: 3.4 33 34 -------------- 35 36 Submodules in the ``html`` package are: 37 38 * :mod:`html.parser` -- HTML/XHTML parser with lenient parsing mode 39 * :mod:`html.entities` -- HTML entity definitions 40
