fixed one bug with blocks, one to go
--HG--
branch : trunk
diff --git a/jinja2/utils.py b/jinja2/utils.py
index 3f6395e..23a3b15 100644
--- a/jinja2/utils.py
+++ b/jinja2/utils.py
@@ -8,3 +8,16 @@
:copyright: 2008 by Armin Ronacher.
:license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
"""
+
+
+def escape(obj, attribute=False):
+ """HTML escape an object."""
+ if hasattr(obj, '__html__'):
+ return obj.__html__()
+ s = unicode(obj) \
+ .replace('&', '&') \
+ .replace('>', '>') \
+ .replace('<', '<')
+ if attribute:
+ s = s.replace('"', '"')
+ return s