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profiling.sampling flamegraph does not escape function names in HTML output #153840

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The flamegraph exporter in profiling.sampling embeds profile strings into the generated HTML without escaping:

  1. _create_flamegraph_html writes json.dumps(data) into an inline <script> block. A function name containing </script> breaks out of the script element.

  2. flamegraph.js interpolates the raw function name into a tooltip via .html() (innerHTML).

The sibling heatmap exporter already escapes its embedded data (html.escape(json.dumps(...))), and flamegraph.js already defines and uses escapeHtml() for displayName and source lines -- the function name was missed.

As a bonus, <lambda>, <module>, <genexpr> currently render as empty tooltip titles because the browser drops them as unknown tags. Escaping fixes this.

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main

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macOS

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    type-bugAn unexpected behavior, bug, or error
    stdlibStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directory
    on Jul 17, 2026
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