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Add note to warn against general translation of saxutils.escape()
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ or as base classes.
replaced with its corresponding value. The characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and
``'>'`` are always escaped, even if *entities* is provided.

.. note::

This function should only be used to escape characters that
can't be used directly in XML. Do not use this function as a general
string translation function.

.. function:: unescape(data, entities={})

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