decoding XML-ified special chars such as "

[Christopher]

Hey Gabe,

Well, I'll assume that you have PyXML (really a must if you are going
to do anything with XML in Python).  If that is right, here you are...

from xml.sax.saxutils import escape

data = escape(orig_data)

and there you are.  Otherwise, you might get by using
urllib.unquote(data).  Hope that help.

Chris



"Gabe Newcomb" <Gabe.Newcomb at noetix.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1027968580.20805.python-list at python.org>...
> Is there a module to take strings such as ", & and turn them
> into the characters they normally represent (', &)?
> 
> Gabe Newcomb
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