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:mod:`xml.sax.saxutils` --- SAX Utilities
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.. module:: xml.sax.saxutils
:synopsis: Convenience functions and classes for use with SAX.
.. moduleauthor:: Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
.. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
The module :mod:`xml.sax.saxutils` contains a number of classes and functions
that are commonly useful when creating SAX applications, either in direct use,
or as base classes.
.. function:: escape(data, entities={})
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Escape ``'&'``, ``'<'``, and ``'>'`` in a string of data.
You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional
*entities* parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be
Merged revisions 60094-60123 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk *** NOTE *** I haven't merged the files in Doc/c-api/. I got too many conflicts. Georg, please split them manually. ........ r60095 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 21:12:04 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Bug 1277: make Maildir use the user-provided factory instead of hard-wiring MaildirMessage. 2.5.2 bugfix candidate. ........ r60097 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:22:13 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines #1663329: add os.closerange() to close a range of fds, ignoring errors, and use this in subprocess to speed up subprocess creation in close_fds mode. Patch by Mike Klaas. ........ r60099 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:40:24 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines #1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape. ........ r60101 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 21:47:59 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 7 lines Patch #1019808 from Federico Schwindt: Return correct socket error when a default timeout has been set, by using getsockopt() to get the error condition (instead of trying another connect() call, which seems to be a Linuxism). 2.5 bugfix candidate, assuming no one reports any problems with this change. ........ r60102 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 21:49:02 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines fix comment typos, use not arg instead of arg == "", add test coverage for inside of the final if needquotes: within subprocess.list2cmdline(). ........ r60103 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:53:07 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines #1509: fix sqlite3 docstrings and docs w.r.t. cursor.fetchXXX methods. ........ r60104 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 21:57:59 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 6 lines Fixes issue1336 - a race condition could occur when forking if the gc kicked in during the critical section. solution: disable gc during that section. Patch contributed by jpa and updated by me to cover the race condition still existing what therve from twistedmatrix pointed out (already seen and fixed in twisted's own subprocess code). ........ r60105 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 22:00:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines note about r60104 ........ r60106 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 22:00:38 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line Bug 1296: restore text describing OptionGroup ........ r60109 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 23:08:21 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Split the monstrous C API manual files in smaller parts. ........ r60110 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 23:14:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Missed one big file to split up. ........ r60111 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 23:23:56 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 12 lines Undo an unnecessary else: and indentation that r60104 added. try: ... except: ... raise else: ... the else: is unecessary due to the blind except: with a raise. ........ r60115 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 23:49:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Fix issue 1300: Quote command line arguments that contain a '|' character in subprocess.list2cmdline (windows). ........ r60116 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 00:10:52 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Fixes/Accepts Patch for issue1189216 - Work properly with archives that have file headers past the 2**31 byte boundary. ........ r60119 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-20 01:00:38 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Patch #1048820 from Stefan Wehr: add insert-mode editing to Textbox. Fix an off-by-one error I noticed. ........ r60120 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-20 01:12:19 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 1 line Add an interactive test script for exercising curses ........ r60121 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:21:03 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 7 lines Fix zipfile decryption. The check for validity only worked on one type of encrypted zip files. Files using extended local headers needed to compare the check byte against different values. (according to reading the infozip unzip crypt.c source code) Fixes issue1003. ........ r60122 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:26:04 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines note for r60121 ........ r60123 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:32:00 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines Document that zipfile decryption is insanely slow and fix a typo and blatant lie in a docstring (it is not useful for security regardless of how you spell it). ........
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replaced with its corresponding value. The characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and
``'>'`` are always escaped, even if *entities* is provided.
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.. function:: unescape(data, entities={})
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Unescape ``'&amp;'``, ``'&lt;'``, and ``'&gt;'`` in a string of data.
You can unescape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional
*entities* parameter. The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be
Merged revisions 60094-60123 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk *** NOTE *** I haven't merged the files in Doc/c-api/. I got too many conflicts. Georg, please split them manually. ........ r60095 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 21:12:04 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Bug 1277: make Maildir use the user-provided factory instead of hard-wiring MaildirMessage. 2.5.2 bugfix candidate. ........ r60097 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:22:13 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines #1663329: add os.closerange() to close a range of fds, ignoring errors, and use this in subprocess to speed up subprocess creation in close_fds mode. Patch by Mike Klaas. ........ r60099 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:40:24 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines #1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape. ........ r60101 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 21:47:59 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 7 lines Patch #1019808 from Federico Schwindt: Return correct socket error when a default timeout has been set, by using getsockopt() to get the error condition (instead of trying another connect() call, which seems to be a Linuxism). 2.5 bugfix candidate, assuming no one reports any problems with this change. ........ r60102 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 21:49:02 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines fix comment typos, use not arg instead of arg == "", add test coverage for inside of the final if needquotes: within subprocess.list2cmdline(). ........ r60103 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:53:07 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines #1509: fix sqlite3 docstrings and docs w.r.t. cursor.fetchXXX methods. ........ r60104 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 21:57:59 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 6 lines Fixes issue1336 - a race condition could occur when forking if the gc kicked in during the critical section. solution: disable gc during that section. Patch contributed by jpa and updated by me to cover the race condition still existing what therve from twistedmatrix pointed out (already seen and fixed in twisted's own subprocess code). ........ r60105 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 22:00:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines note about r60104 ........ r60106 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 22:00:38 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line Bug 1296: restore text describing OptionGroup ........ r60109 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 23:08:21 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Split the monstrous C API manual files in smaller parts. ........ r60110 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 23:14:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Missed one big file to split up. ........ r60111 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 23:23:56 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 12 lines Undo an unnecessary else: and indentation that r60104 added. try: ... except: ... raise else: ... the else: is unecessary due to the blind except: with a raise. ........ r60115 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 23:49:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Fix issue 1300: Quote command line arguments that contain a '|' character in subprocess.list2cmdline (windows). ........ r60116 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 00:10:52 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Fixes/Accepts Patch for issue1189216 - Work properly with archives that have file headers past the 2**31 byte boundary. ........ r60119 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-20 01:00:38 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Patch #1048820 from Stefan Wehr: add insert-mode editing to Textbox. Fix an off-by-one error I noticed. ........ r60120 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-20 01:12:19 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 1 line Add an interactive test script for exercising curses ........ r60121 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:21:03 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 7 lines Fix zipfile decryption. The check for validity only worked on one type of encrypted zip files. Files using extended local headers needed to compare the check byte against different values. (according to reading the infozip unzip crypt.c source code) Fixes issue1003. ........ r60122 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:26:04 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines note for r60121 ........ r60123 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:32:00 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines Document that zipfile decryption is insanely slow and fix a typo and blatant lie in a docstring (it is not useful for security regardless of how you spell it). ........
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replaced with its corresponding value. ``'&amp'``, ``'&lt;'``, and ``'&gt;'``
are always unescaped, even if *entities* is provided.
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.. function:: quoteattr(data, entities={})
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Similar to :func:`escape`, but also prepares *data* to be used as an
attribute value. The return value is a quoted version of *data* with any
additional required replacements. :func:`quoteattr` will select a quote
character based on the content of *data*, attempting to avoid encoding any
quote characters in the string. If both single- and double-quote characters
are already in *data*, the double-quote characters will be encoded and *data*
will be wrapped in double-quotes. The resulting string can be used directly
as an attribute value::
>>> print("<element attr=%s>" % quoteattr("ab ' cd \" ef"))
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<element attr="ab ' cd &quot; ef">
This function is useful when generating attribute values for HTML or any SGML
using the reference concrete syntax.
.. class:: XMLGenerator(out=None, encoding='iso-8859-1', short_empty_elements=False)
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This class implements the :class:`ContentHandler` interface by writing SAX
events back into an XML document. In other words, using an :class:`XMLGenerator`
as the content handler will reproduce the original document being parsed. *out*
should be a file-like object which will default to *sys.stdout*. *encoding* is
the encoding of the output stream which defaults to ``'iso-8859-1'``.
*short_empty_elements* controls the formatting of elements that contain no
content: if *False* (the default) they are emitted as a pair of start/end
tags, if set to *True* they are emitted as a single self-closed tag.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
short_empty_elements
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.. class:: XMLFilterBase(base)
This class is designed to sit between an :class:`XMLReader` and the client
application's event handlers. By default, it does nothing but pass requests up
to the reader and events on to the handlers unmodified, but subclasses can
override specific methods to modify the event stream or the configuration
requests as they pass through.
.. function:: prepare_input_source(source, base='')
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This function takes an input source and an optional base URL and returns a fully
resolved :class:`InputSource` object ready for reading. The input source can be
given as a string, a file-like object, or an :class:`InputSource` object;
parsers will use this function to implement the polymorphic *source* argument to
their :meth:`parse` method.