Decoding numerical and name based HTML entities

[William Park]

Pieter Claerhout <Pieter.Claerhout at creo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> what would be the easiest way in Python to decode HTML entities to a unicode
> string? I would need a function that supports both numerical as well as name
> based HTML entities.
> 
> I already did some googling, but I only found a function that decoded
> numerical ones, and this function didn't support unicode...

Dictionary "table" would be first thing I'd try, ie.
    tohtml['&'] = '&'
    fromhtml['&'] = '&'

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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