UTF8 & HTMLParser

[Jan Danielsson]

Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>    I'm writing a python script which fetches a HTML-page (using wget),
> and then parses the retrieved page using a custom htmllib HTMLParser.
> 
>    The page I fetch is encoded in utf8, and my text-handler currently
> looks like this:
> 
>    def handle_data(self, text):
>       if self.inOption:
>          self.currentName = text
> 
>    However, I would like to convert the "text" (which is utf8) to
> latin-1. How do I do that? I've been trying to figure it out for some
> time now, and I'm just getting frustrated. :-(

   I should have mentioned: The problem appears to be that I can't seem
to find a way to make python understand that "text" (the above argument)
is in fact already utf-8.

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Kind Regards,
Jan Danielsson
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