In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adam Atlas  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As far as I know, there isn't a standard idiom to do this, but it's
>still a one-liner. Untested, but I think this should work:
>
>import re
>from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
>def htmlentitydecode(s):
>    return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint), lambda m:
>name2codepoint[m.group(1)], s)
>

A.  I *think* you meant
        import re
        from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
        def htmlentitydecode(s):
            return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint), lambda m: 
chr(name2codepoint[m.group(1)]), s)
    We're stretching the limits of what's comfortable
    for me as a one-liner.
B.  How's it happen this isn't in the Cookbook?  I'm
    curious about what other Pythoneers think:  is 
    this better memorialized in the Cookbook or the
    Wiki?
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