gh-71616: Add note to warn against general translation of saxutils.escape() (#93450)

* Add note to warn against general translation of saxutils.escape()

* Use more direct wording

diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
index e46fefdf997510d3455dff1e0864931ef2e52518..ab4606bcf9fe6ca85160ad4fb29351ad6799b70c 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ or as base classes.
    replaced with its corresponding value.  The characters ``'&'``, ``'<'`` and
    ``'>'`` are always escaped, even if *entities* is provided.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      This function should only be used to escape characters that
+      can't be used directly in XML. Do not use this function as a general
+      string translation function.
 
 .. function:: unescape(data, entities={})