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+# Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+
+"""Provide an html.escape method that is python method safe."""
+
+import six
+
+if six.PY3:
+ from html import escape
+else:
+ # This is a copy from Python3.
+ def escape(s, quote=True):
+ """
+ Replace special characters "&", "<" and ">" to HTML-safe sequences. If
+ the optional flag quote is true (the default), the quotation mark
+ characters, both double quote (") and single quote (') characters are
+ also translated.
+ """
+ s = s.replace("&", "&amp;") # Must be done first!
+ s = s.replace("<", "&lt;")
+ s = s.replace(">", "&gt;")
+ if quote:
+ s = s.replace('"', "&quot;")
+ s = s.replace('\'', "&#x27;")
+ return s