HTML Encoded Translation

[Dave]

How can I translate this:

gi

to this:

"gi"

I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.

Thanks!

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: HTML Encoded Translation

Dave wrote:

How can I translate this:
>
gi
>
to this:
>
"gi"

the easiest way is to run it through an HTML or XML parser (depending on
what the source is). or you could use something like this:

import re

def fix_charrefs(te xt):
def fixup(m):
text = m.group(0)
try:
if text[:3] == "&#x":
return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16))
else:
return unichr(int(text[2:-1]))
except ValueError:
pass
return text # leave as is
return re.sub("&#?\w+; ", fixup, text)

>>fix_charrefs( "g&#10 5;")

'gi'

also see:

http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#strip-html

I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.

those are HTML/XML character references, not encoded URL characters.

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[Sybren Stuvel]

Re: HTML Encoded Translation

Dave enlightened us with:

How can I translate this:
>
&#103;&#105;
>
to this:
>
"gi"
>
I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.

As you put so nicely in the subject: it is HTML encoding, not URL
encoding. Those are two very different things! Try a HTML decoder,
you'll have more luck with that...

Sybren
--
Sybren Stüvel
Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/

[Dave]

Re: HTML Encoded Translation

Got it, great. This worked like a charm. I knew I was barking up the
wrong tree with urllib, but I didn't know which tree to bark up...

Thanks!

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Dave wrote:
>

How can I translate this:

&#103;&#105;

to this:

"gi"

>
the easiest way is to run it through an HTML or XML parser (depending on
what the source is). or you could use something like this:
>
import re
>
def fix_charrefs(te xt):
def fixup(m):
text = m.group(0)
try:
if text[:3] == "&#x":
return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16))
else:
return unichr(int(text[2:-1]))
except ValueError:
pass
return text # leave as is
return re.sub("&#?\w+; ", fixup, text)
>

>>fix_charrefs( "&#103;&#10 5;")

'gi'
>
also see:
>

http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#strip-html

>

I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.

>
those are HTML/XML character references, not encoded URL characters.
>
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