convert html entities into real chars

[Laszlo Nagy]

Hi,

I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>',
'&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a
code snippet for the opposite).
Thanks,

Laszlo

[Laszlo Nagy]

> I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>',
> '&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a
> code snippet for the opposite).

Found it, sorry

def convertentity(m):
"""Convert a HTML entity into normal string (ISO-8859-1)"""
if m.group(1)=='#':
try:
return chr(int(m.group(2)))
except ValueError:
return '&#%s;' % m.group(2)
try:
return htmlentitydefs.entitydefs[m.group(2)]
except KeyError:
return '&%s;' % m.group(2)

def unquotehtml(s):
"""Convert a HTML quoted string into normal string (ISO-8859-1).

Works with &#XX; and with   > etc."""
return re.sub(r'&(#?)(.+?);',convertentity,s)

[Larry Bates]

You can use htmlentitydefs module to help with this.

import htmlentitydefs

chr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint['gt'])

and (to go the other way)

htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord('>')]

-Larry

[Larry Bates]

You can use htmlentitydefs module to help with this.