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html.escape not found in python2

See original GitHub issue

Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "linkfinder.py", line 375, in <module>
    url = html.escape(endpoint["link"])
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'escape'

Last time I fixed this issue, it turns out that LinkFinder worked on my machine because I silently have “future” package installed. Any machine running python2 without that package will fail.

Thank you Vishal for reporting this to me.

Here is the point of this issue. Should I still fix it as python2 support ? Fixing it will take just few minutes but it will make the code bit messier and python2 will be deprecated in 4 months anyway.

@EdOverflow What is your opinion ?

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EdOverflowcommented, Aug 8, 2019

Updated accordingly. Let me know if that works for you, @Bankde.

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Bankdecommented, Aug 8, 2019

Yes we should. Could you please update few lines ? In readme.txt LinkFinder supports Python 2 & 3.

In linkfinder.py Line 2: # Python 2.7.x - 3.6.x So I don’t have to create PR.

I have noticed some messes that (possibly!?) come from supporting python2 such in Line 16-26. This might take some time to figure out what happens there so I will create PR later.

Thank you.

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