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