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[mp]

I have html document titles with characters like >,  , and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

Thanks

[i80and]

I would suggest using string.replace. Simply replace '&nbsp' with ' '
for each time it occurs. It doesn't take too much code.

On Nov 7, 1:34 pm, "mp" <[e-mail]:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

Thanks

[mp]

I'd prefer a more generalized solution which takes care of all possible
ampersand characters. I assume that there is code already written which
does this.

Thanks

i80and wrote:

I would suggest using string.replace. Simply replace '&nbsp' with ' '
for each time it occurs. It doesn't take too much code.

On Nov 7, 1:34 pm, "mp" <[e-mail]:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

Thanks

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Tuesday 7/11/2006 17:10, mp wrote:

>I'd prefer a more generalized solution which takes care of all possible
ampersand characters. I assume that there is code already written which
does this.

Try the htmlentitydefs module
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On 7 Nov 2006 11:34:32 -0800, "mp" <ma*********@email.comdeclaimed the
following in comp.lang.python:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I sddecode a string with these values in Python?

Wouldn't HTMLParser be suited for such activity?
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Use htmlentitydefs and SGMLParser to re-generate it .

[Frederic Rentsch]

mp wrote:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

Thanks

This is definitely the most FAQ. It comes up about once a week.

The stream-editing way is like this:

>>import SE
HTM_Decoder = SE.SE ('htm2iso.se') # Include path

>>test_string = '''I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and

‡. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?'''

>>print HTM_Decoder (test_string)

I have html document titles with characters like >, , and
‡. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

An SE object does files too.

>>HTM_Decoder ('with_codes.txt', 'translated_codes.txt') # Include path

You could download SE from -http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SE/2.3. The translation definitions file "htm2iso.se" is included. If you open it in your editor, you can see how to write your own definition files for other translation tasks you may have some other time.

Regards

Frederic