tornado.escape --- Escaping and string manipulation

.. automodule:: tornado.escape

Escaping functions

.. autofunction:: xhtml_escape .. autofunction:: xhtml_unescape

.. autofunction:: url_escape .. autofunction:: url_unescape

.. autofunction:: json_encode .. autofunction:: json_decode

Byte/unicode conversions

.. autofunction:: utf8 .. autofunction:: to_unicode .. function:: native_str .. function:: to_basestring

  Converts a byte or unicode string into type `str`. These functions
  were used to help transition from Python 2 to Python 3 but are now
  deprecated aliases for `to_unicode`.

.. autofunction:: recursive_unicode

Miscellaneous functions

.. autofunction:: linkify .. autofunction:: squeeze