Decoding numerical and name based HTML entities

Pieter Claerhout

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...

Cheers,
pieter

Jul 18 '05 #1

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William Park

Pieter Claerhout <Pi**************@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['&'] = '&'

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <op**********@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data processing and document management.

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