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# 19.1. `html` — HyperText Markup Language support

New in version 3.2.

Source code: Lib/html/__init__.py

This module defines utilities to manipulate HTML.

`html.``escape`(s, quote=True)

  Convert the characters `&`, `<` and `>` in string s to HTML-safe sequences. Use this if you need to display text that might contain such characters in HTML. If the optional flag quote is true, the characters (`"`) and (`'`) are also translated; this helps for inclusion in an HTML attribute value delimited by quotes, as in `<a href="...">`.

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