html escape sequences

[Will McGugan]

Hi,

I'd like to replace html escape sequences, like &nbsp and &#39 with
single characters. Is there a dictionary defined somewhere I can use to
replace these sequences?

Thanks,

Will McGugan

[Leif K-Brooks]

Re: html escape sequences

Will McGugan wrote:[color=blue]
> I'd like to replace html escape sequences, like &nbsp and &#39 with
> single characters. Is there a dictionary defined somewhere I can use to
> replace these sequences?[/color]

How about this?

import re
from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint

_entity_re = re.compile(r'&( ?:(#)(\d+)|([^;]+));')

def _repl_func(matc h):
if match.group(1): # Numeric character reference
return unichr(int(matc h.group(2)))
else:
return unichr(name2cod epoint[match.group(3)])

def handle_html_ent ities(string):
return _entity_re.sub( _repl_func, string)

[Will McGugan]

Re: html escape sequences

Leif K-Brooks wrote:[color=blue]
> Will McGugan wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I'd like to replace html escape sequences, like &nbsp and &#39 with
>> single characters. Is there a dictionary defined somewhere I can use
>> to replace these sequences?[/color]
>
>
> How about this?
>
> import re
> from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
>
> _entity_re = re.compile(r'&( ?:(#)(\d+)|([^;]+));')
>
> def _repl_func(matc h):
> if match.group(1): # Numeric character reference
> return unichr(int(matc h.group(2)))
> else:
> return unichr(name2cod epoint[match.group(3)])
>
> def handle_html_ent ities(string):
> return _entity_re.sub( _repl_func, string)[/color]

muchas gracias!

Will McGugan