what module can do html encoder??

[Gerrit]

richard wrote:
> Leon wrote:
> > example:
> >         s = ' ' --->  
> 
> That's technically not HTML encoding, that's replacing a perfectly valid
> space character with a *non-breaking* space character.

How can you tell?

s = ' ' # non-breaking space
s = ' ' # normal space
s = '῟' # em-space

But you might want to do something like:

def escapechar(s):
    import htmlentitydefs
    n = ord(s)
    if n < 128:
        return s.encode('ascii')
    elif n in htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name:
        return '&%s;' % htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[n]
    else:
        return '&#%d;' % ord(s)

This requires unicode strings, because unicode encodings have multi-byte
characters. Demonstration:

>>> f(u'ò')
'ò'
>>> f(u'ş')
'ş'
>>> f(u's')
's'

yours,
Gerrit Holl.

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