decoding XML-ified special chars such as "
Christopher
chris_mk at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 31 14:44:28 EDT 2002
For some reason it wasn't posted, but I wrote a message saying that I
read the email incorrectly (I thought it was the other way around,
trying to encode XML/HTML, just like Skip said). Sorry about that. I
did find the unescape module (see my post below). Sorry again.
Chris
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1028065548.24401.python-list at python.org>...
> chris> from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
> chris> data = escape(orig_data)
>
> That goes the wrong way. I think the OP wanted to go from '"' to '"',
> not the other way around.
>
> chris> ... you might get by using urllib.unquote(data)
>
> That's for unquoting stuff that's been escape for inclusion into URLs, also
> not what the OP asked for.
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