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Stdlib — NetworkingPython 2.0+Advanced

HTML entity escaping and unescaping

Quick Info

Documentation
Official Docs
Python Version
2.0+
Dependencies
None — Python Standard Library
Install
Included with Python

Learn by Difficulty

Quick Example

python
import html

# Escape HTML
text = '<script>alert("XSS")</script>'
safe = html.escape(text)
print(f"Escaped: {safe}")

# Unescape
print(f"Unescaped: {html.unescape(safe)}")

The html module is part of Python's standard library. HTML entity escaping and unescaping.

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