Python method to escape html using entities

html_escape.py

from html.entities import codepoint2name

def html_escape(text):    
    d = dict((chr(code), '&%s;' % name) for code, name in codepoint2name.items() if code!=38)  # exclude "&"    
    text = text.replace("&", "&")
    for key, value in d.items():
        text = text.replace(key, value)
    return text