html — Easy Playground

HTML entity escaping and unescaping

Python Playground

import html

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

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

Output

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

Challenge

Try modifying the code above to explore different behaviors. Can you extend the example to handle a new use case?

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