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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:14:34 +0900
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 Thanks you Matimus.
That's exactly what I'm looking for!
Easy, clean and customizable.
I love python :)

On 6/5/07, Matimus <mccre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 4, 6:31 am, "js " <ebgs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi list.
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, in python, there's no standard library to convert
> > html entities, like &amp; or &gt; 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.
>
> I think this is the standard idiom:
>
> >>> import xml.sax.saxutils as saxutils
> >>> saxutils.escape("&")
> '&amp;'
> >>> saxutils.unescape("&gt;")
> '>'
> >>> saxutils.unescape("A bunch of text with entities: &amp; &gt; &lt;")
> 'A bunch of text with entities: & > <'
>
> Notice there is an optional parameter (a dict) that can be used to
> define additional entities as well.
>
> Matt
>
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