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

Message from discussion How do you htmlentities in Python

Cameron Laird

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More options Jun 5 2007, 1:41 am

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From: cla...@lairds.us (Cameron Laird)

Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:41:37 +0000

Local: Tues, Jun 5 2007 1:41 am

Subject: Re: How do you htmlentities in Python

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In article <1180965792.757685.132...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Adam Atlas <a...@atlas.st> wrote:

>As far as I know, there isn't a standard idiom to do this, but it's
>still a one-liner. Untested, but I think this should work:

>import re
>from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
>def htmlentitydecode(s):
> return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint), lambda m:
>name2codepoint[m.group(1)], s)

How strange that this doesn't appear in the Cookbook! I'm
curious about how others think: does such an item better
belong in the Cookbook, or the Wiki?

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