Peng Yu schrieb am 22.08.19 um 21:22:

I use the following code to replace nbsp with space. Is it the best way to do so in lxml? Thanks.

from lxml import html doc = html.parse(sys.stdin, parser = html.HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8')) for x in doc.iter(): if x.text is not None: x.text = x.text.replace(u'\xa0', ' ') if x.tail is not None: x.tail = x.tail.replace(u'\xa0', ' ')

Looks good to me, although this slightly more ugly variant should be faster: for el in doc.iter(): text = el.text if text and '\xa0' in text: el.text = text.replace('\xa0', ' ') tail = el.tail if tail and '\xa0' in tail: el.tail = tail.replace('\xa0', ' ')

sys.stdout.write(html.tostring(doc).encode('utf-8'))

This should read html.tostring(doc, encoding='utf-8') You are probably using Python 2. Python 3 would have caught this bug. Stefan