Commit 333fe1e9 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

#1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape.

parent eab9df97
......@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ or as base classes.
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
replaced with its corresponding value.
replaced with its corresponding value. The characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and
``'>'`` are always escaped, even if *entities* is provided.
.. function:: unescape(data[, entities])
......@@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ or as base classes.
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
replaced with its corresponding value.
replaced with its corresponding value. ``'&amp'``, ``'&lt;'``, and ``'&gt;'``
are always unescaped, even if *entities* is provided.
.. versionadded:: 2.3
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