Escaping strings for use in XML
xml.sax.saxutils does not escape quotation characters (")
So here is another one:
def escape( str ): str = str.replace("&", "&") str = str.replace("<", "<") str = str.replace(">", ">") str = str.replace("\"", """) return strif you look it up then xml.sax.saxutils only does string replace
xml.sax.saxutils.escape only escapes &, <, and > by default, but it does provide an entities parameter to additionally escape other strings:
from xml.sax.saxutils import escapedef xmlescape(data): return escape(data, entities={ "'": "'", "\"": """ })xml.sax.saxutils.escape uses str.replace() internally, so you can also skip the import and write your own function, as shown in MichealMoser's answer.