valide html - Encoding/Decoding

[gene tani]

rabby wrote:
> hello world!
> how to get the string "/ + ( ) + \ + [ ] + : + äöü" converted into
> valide html.
> "...".decode("html") does not run :(
> thank you for help

the a-umlaut <=> ä and other translations are in htmlentitydefs,
like Dennis said.

cgi.escape will give you < & "e; etc, xml.sax.saxutils has
parallel functions
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.saxutils.html

of the RFC 1738 encodings you need to do for chars in URLs, i believe
"~" is the only one you commonly have to worry about so rewrite as
"%7E" manually...