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RC
By default the

document = xml.dom.minidom.parse(inputFileName.xml)

This will convert all the & to &
But I want to convert the & back to &

Is there a module or method in Python?
I know there is such method in PHP, but I am
new in Python.
Thanks!
Oct 20 '08 #1
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RC wrote:
By default the

document = xml.dom.minidom.parse(inputFileName.xml)

This will convert all the & to &
But I want to convert the & back to &

Is there a module or method in Python?
I know there is such method in PHP, but I am
new in Python.
>>from xml.sax import saxutils
saxutils.escape("&")
'&'
>>>
Diez
Oct 20 '08 #2

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