UTF-8 usage in Python 2.0

[Fran=?ISO-8859-1?B?5w==?=ois Granger]

in article snwK5.3183$jv2.357271 at newsc.telia.net, Fredrik Lundh at
effbot at telia.com wrote on 28/10/00 9:46:

> François Granger wrote:
>> I looked throught the new features of Python 2 but I did not found an
>> easy way to do something similar to what I did with this 8859
>> modification.
> 
> # macroman to latin1
> outdata = unicode(data, "macroman").encode("latin1")

Even simpler !
Next question, what if my source is encoded in html entity ?

I wrote this really stupide piece of (can I call it ?) code to serve as a
pre-filter:

from entity88591 import entitydefs
#...
def htmlTo88591(s):
    for entity in entitydefs.keys():
        s=string.replace(s, '&' + entity + ';', entitydefs[entity])
    return s

I guess that someone will write one line to substitute to this ??

> I've-never-met-macro-man-ly yrs /F

Neither me, is it someone I should meet ?
;-)

Salutations,
Francois Granger
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