Source code for silx.utils.html
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"""Utils function relative to HTML
"""
__authors__ = ["V. Valls"]
__license__ = "MIT"
__date__ = "19/09/2016"
[docs]def escape(string, quote=True):
"""Returns a string where HTML metacharacters are properly escaped.
Compatibility layer to avoid incompatibilities between Python versions,
Qt versions and Qt bindings.
>>> import silx.utils.html
>>> silx.utils.html.escape("<html>")
>>> "<html>"
.. note:: Since Python 3.3 you can use the `html` module. For previous
version, it is provided by `sgi` module.
.. note:: Qt4 provides it with `Qt.escape` while Qt5 provide it with
`QString.toHtmlEscaped`. But `QString` is not exposed by `PyQt` or
`PySide`.
:param str string: Human readable string.
:param bool quote: Escape quote and double quotes (default behaviour).
:returns: Valid HTML syntax to display the input string.
:rtype: str
"""
string = string.replace("&", "&") # must be done first
string = string.replace("<", "<")
string = string.replace(">", ">")
if quote:
string = string.replace("'", "'")
string = string.replace("\"", """)
return string
