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Python has always been shipped with a cgi module to escape different characters, but this has limitations. Starting with Python 3.2, the HTML module curbs these shortcomings. HTML parsing and entities are achieved using different modules in Python 2 and 3, which makes a unified code base even harder to write. This chapter describes ways of implementing HTML escaping, parsing, and entities that work in both Python 2 and Python 3.
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Nanjekye, J. (2017). HTML Processing. In: Python 2 and 3 Compatibility. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2955-2_7
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