Decoding numerical and name based HTML entities

[Robert Brewer]

William Park wrote:
> Pieter Claerhout <Pieter.Claerhout at creo.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > what would be the easiest way in Python to decode HTML 
> entities to a unicode
> > string? I would need a function that supports both 
> numerical as well as name
> > based HTML entities.
> > 
> > I already did some googling, but I only found a function 
> that decoded
> > numerical ones, and this function didn't support unicode...
> 
> Dictionary "table" would be first thing I'd try, ie.
>     tohtml['&'] = '&'
>     fromhtml['&'] = '&'


That dictionary already exists ;)

>>> import htmlentitydefs
>>> htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[u'amp']
38
>>> unichr(38)
u'&'


Robert Brewer
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