Re: html escape sequences

[Leif K-Brooks]

Will McGugan wrote:
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?
How about this?
import re
from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
_entity_re = re.compile(r'&(?:(#)(\d+)|([^;]+));')
def _repl_func(match):
    if match.group(1): # Numeric character reference
        return unichr(int(match.group(2)))
    else:
        return unichr(name2codepoint[match.group(3)])
def handle_html_entities(string):
    return _entity_re.sub(_repl_func, string)
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