Convert xml symbol notation

[Gabriel Genellina]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> >> I'm working on a script to download and parse a web page, and it
> >> includes xml symbol notation, such as ' for the ' character.  Does
> >
> > Try the htmlentitydefs module.
>
> That won't help: this is a character reference, not an entity reference.
> htmlentitydefs only contains the definitions of entities.

Ouch! Sorry.

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Gabriel Genellina