python-telegram-bot/telegram/utils/helpers.py
Jannes Höke 9aa5522694 sanitize html and markdown in Message.text_html and text_markdown (#621)
* sanitize html and markdown in Message.text_html and text_markdown

* add import for escape_html
2017-05-19 19:11:40 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# A library that provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API
# Copyright (C) 2015-2017
# Leandro Toledo de Souza <devs@python-telegram-bot.org>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Lesser Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
# along with this program. If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/].
""" This module contains helper functions """
import re
try:
from html import escape as escape_html # noqa: F401
except ImportError:
from cgi import escape as escape_html # noqa: F401
def escape_markdown(text):
"""Helper function to escape telegram markup symbols"""
escape_chars = '\*_`\['
return re.sub(r'([%s])' % escape_chars, r'\\\1', text)