Character encoding

[mp]

I have html document titles with characters like >,  , and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

Thanks

[i80and]

Re: Character encoding

I would suggest using string.replace. Simply replace '&nbsp' with ' '
for each time it occurs. It doesn't take too much code.

On Nov 7, 1:34 pm, "mp" <mailpitc...@em ail.comwrote:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?
>
Thanks

[mp]

Re: Character encoding

I'd prefer a more generalized solution which takes care of all possible
ampersand characters. I assume that there is code already written which
does this.

Thanks

i80and wrote:

I would suggest using string.replace. Simply replace '&nbsp' with ' '
for each time it occurs. It doesn't take too much code.
>
On Nov 7, 1:34 pm, "mp" <mailpitc...@em ail.comwrote:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

Thanks

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: Character encoding

At Tuesday 7/11/2006 17:10, mp wrote:

>I'd prefer a more generalized solution which takes care of all possible
>ampersand characters. I assume that there is code already written which
>does this.

Try the htmlentitydefs module


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Re: Character encoding


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On 7 Nov 2006 11:34:32 -0800, "mp" <mailpitches@em ail.comdeclaime d the
following in comp.lang.pytho n:
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I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I sddecode a string with these values in Python?

>
Wouldn't HTMLParser be suited for such activity?
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Use htmlentitydefs and SGMLParser to re-generate it .

[Frederic Rentsch]

Re: Character encoding

mp wrote:

I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and
&#135. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?
>
Thanks
>
>

This is definitely the most FAQ. It comes up about once a week.

The stream-editing way is like this:

>>import SE
>>HTM_Decoder = SE.SE ('htm2iso.se') # Include path

>>test_string = '''I have html document titles with characters like &gt;, &nbsp;, and

‡. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?'''

>>print HTM_Decoder (test_string)

I have html document titles with characters like >, , and
‡. How do I decode a string with these values in Python?

An SE object does files too.

>>HTM_Decoder ('with_codes.tx t', 'translated_cod es.txt') # Include path

You could download SE from -http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SE/2.3. The translation definitions file "htm2iso.se " is included. If you open it in your editor, you can see how to write your own definition files for other translation tasks you may have some other time.

Regards

Frederic