You might want to try this. This works for me.
def convert_HTMLToUnicode(string):
u = ""
n = len(string)
i = 0
while i < n:
if i < n-5:
if string[i:i+3] == '&#x' and string[i+5] == ';':
u += unichr(int(string[i+3:i+5], 16)).encode('utf-8')
i += 6
continue
u += string[i]
i += 1
return u
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David López Luengo <ole...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi everybody there!, here's a quick question.
>
> I'm getting the text from an entry:
>
> <gtk.Entry-instance>.get_text()
>
> Which actually has 'text text \xff text text'. This strings is returned "as
> is", this mean, with each character, including \ and x and f and f, all I
> want to do is just get the same string BUT with the scaped character "\xff"
> as just one byte, I have read gtk.Entry reference and I think it is not
> possible from there, instead of that I have to get the text "as is" and then
> manipulate it to transform those four bytes not escaped in just one escaped
> character. Do you know how to do that? I suppose it is possible using
> functions of python str class but which and how?. This could be a question
> for "python strings mailing list", but I'm sure someone have this problem
> before.
>
> Thanks for your wisdom :)
>
>
>
> --
> David
>
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