Wanted: python script to convert to/from UTF-8 to/from XML Entities

[Siegfried Heintze]

Does someone have a little python script that will read a file in
UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 (my choice) and search for all the characters between
0x7f-0xffffff and convert them to an ASCII digit string that begins with
"&#" and ends with ";" and output the whole thing? If not, could someone
tell me how to write one?

How about a script to do the inverse?

Thanks!
siegfried

[Fredrik Lundh]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:

Does someone have a little python script that will read a file in
UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 (my choice) and search for all the characters between
0x7f-0xffffff and convert them to an ASCII digit string that begins with
"&#" and ends with ";" and output the whole thing? If not, could someone
tell me how to write one?

file = open("filename.txt", "rb")
text = file.read()
text = unicode(text, "utf-8")
text = text.encode("ascii", "xmlcharrefreplace")
print text

tweak as necessary.

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