How do you htmlentities in Python - comp.lang.python

Message from discussion How do you htmlentities in Python

More options Jun 4 2007, 11:31 pm

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From: "js " <ebgs...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:31:56 +0900

Local: Mon, Jun 4 2007 11:31 pm

Subject: How do you htmlentities in Python

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Hi list.

If I'm not mistaken, in python, there's no standard library to convert
html entities, like & or > into their applicable characters.

htmlentitydefs provides maps that helps this conversion,
but it's not a function so you have to write your own function
make use of htmlentitydefs, probably using regex or something.

To me this seemed odd because python is known as
'Batteries Included' language.

So my questions are
1. Why doesn't python have/need entity encoding/decoding?
2. Is there any idiom to do entity encode/decode in python?

Thank you in advance...

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