Convert from unicode chars to HTML entities

[Steven D'Aprano]

I have a string containing Latin-1 characters:

s = u"© and many more..."

I want to convert it to HTML entities:

result =>
"© and many more..."

Decimal/hex escapes would be acceptable:
"© and many more..."
"© and many more..."

I can look up tables of HTML entities on the web (they're a dime a
dozen), turn them into a dict mapping character to entity, then convert
the string by hand. Is there a "batteries included" solution that doesn't
involve reinventing the wheel?


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Steven D'Aprano