How to encode html and xml tag datas with standard python modules?

[DurumDara]

Hi !

Have the python standard mod. lib. a html/xml encoder functions/procedures ?

like this:

def ToSafeHTM(Text) :
s=ToHuStrSafe(T ext)
l=[]
for c in s:
b=ord(c)
if c=="\n":
c="<br>"
else:
if b<32 or b>127 or c in ['<','>','"',';' ,'&','@','%','# ']:
c="&#%03d;"%b
l.append(c)
s="".join(l)
return s

Thanx for help:
dd