htmlspecialchars like

[climbus]

Pylons need default helper for escaping html special chars. In PHP we have htmlspecialchars function. In webhelpers we have escape_html but this function escapes too many chars (all non ascii).

htmlspecialchars escpaes " < > ' &

[pjenvey]

cgi.escape should do this for you

Also myghty and mako have built in html escape filters (which is just using cgi.escape):

http://www.myghty.org/docs/index.myt?paged=no#filtering_escaping

If you need it in a template language that doesn't have it, I would just do

from cgi import escape

in your helpers.py file. Reopen this if you think there's more we should do