sanitize 2014.10.7

Bringing sanitiy to world of messed-up data

# Sanitize

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sanitize is a Python module for making sure various things (e.g. HTML) are safe to use. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim and is distributed under the BSD license.

Usage

` >>> from sanitize import HTML >>> HTML('<b>hello') '<b>hello</b>' >>> HTML('<img>') '<img />' >>> HTML(("<b><b><b>hello") ... ) '<b><b><b>hello</b></b></b>' >>> HTML('<img src="foo"/') '' >>> HTML('<input type="checkbox" checked>') '<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />' >>> # dangerous tags (a small sample) ... >>> HTML('safe<applet code="foo.class" codebase="http://example.com/"></applet> <b>description</b>') 'safe <b>description</b>' >>> HTML('safe<frameset rows="*"><frame src="http://example.com/"></frameset> <b>description</b>') 'safe <b>description</b>' >>> # bad protocols (a small sample) >>> HTML('<a href="java' + chr(1) + 'script:foo">bar</a>') '<a href="#foo">bar</a>' >>> HTML('<a href="vbscript:foo">bar</a>') '<a href="#foo">bar</a>' >>> ` To see more usage examples see tests/test_sanitize_html.py.

Installation

python-sanitize is available on pypi

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-sanitize

So easily install it by pip:

` pip install sanitize `

Or by easy_install:

` $ easy_install sanitize `

Another way is by cloning python-sanitize’s git repository

` $ git clone git://github.com/Alir3z4/python-sanitize.git `

Then install it by running

` $ python setup.py install `

Tests

To run unit tests:

` $ python setup.py test `

License

Sanitize is distributed under BSD license.