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# coding: utf-8
# /*##########################################################################
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"""Utils function relative to HTML
"""

__authors__ = ["V. Valls"]
__license__ = "MIT"
__date__ = "19/09/2016"


def escape(string, quote=True):
    """Returns a string where HTML metacharacters are properly escaped.

    Compatibility layer to avoid incompatibilities between Python versions,
    Qt versions and Qt bindings.

    >>> import silx.utils.html
    >>> silx.utils.html.escape("<html>")
    >>> "&lt;html&gt;"

    .. note:: Since Python 3.3 you can use the `html` module. For previous
        version, it is provided by `sgi` module.
    .. note:: Qt4 provides it with `Qt.escape` while Qt5 provide it with
        `QString.toHtmlEscaped`. But `QString` is not exposed by `PyQt` or
        `PySide`.

    :param str string: Human readable string.
    :param bool quote: Escape quote and double quotes (default behaviour).
    :returns: Valid HTML syntax to display the input string.
    :rtype: str
    """
    string = string.replace("&", "&amp;")  # must be done first
    string = string.replace("<", "&lt;")
    string = string.replace(">", "&gt;")
    if quote:
        string = string.replace("'", "&apos;")
        string = string.replace("\"", "&quot;")
    return string