convert html entities into real chars

[Larry Bates]

Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>', 
> '&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a
> code snippet for the opposite).
> Thanks,
> 
>   Laszlo
> 

You can use htmlentitydefs module to help with this.

import htmlentitydefs

chr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint['gt'])

and (to go the other way)

htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord('>')]

-Larry