convert html entities into real chars

Laszlo Nagy

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

Apr 10 '07 #1

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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

Apr 10 '07 #2

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

Apr 10 '07 #3

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