Like that for JSON strings, Tornado also provides methods for escaping and unescaping URLs. Not just that, it also exports some methods to play with URLs. Let's see the behavior with the example below https://gist.github.com/3487940 1. tornado.escape.linkify(text) - creates a link for provided text 2. tornado.escape.linkify(text, shorten=Tue) - creates a link and shortens the URL … Continue reading Tornado – Escape – URLs