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htmllib.HTMLPar ser and unicode

Hi,

should the HTMLParser be able to handle unicode input? I get the following
traceback:

self.feed(self. data)
File "C:\Python23\li b\sgmllib.py", line 94, in feed
self.goahead(0)
File "C:\Python23\li b\sgmllib.py", line 183, in goahead
self.handle_ent ityref(name)
File "C:\Python23\li b\sgmllib.py", line 390, in handle_entityre f
self.handle_dat a(table[name])
File "C:\Python23\li b\htmllib.py", line 49, in handle_data
self.savedata = self.savedata + data
UnicodeDecodeEr ror: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)

The input is a html page from the web, encoded as utf8. I converted the
string via data.decode('ut f8'). The result is passed to the feed function.

regards,
Achim
Jul 18 '05 #1
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