parsing "&A" in a string..

[Tino Wildenhain]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> "bruce" <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> it's the beautifulsoup() that's taking the "&E" and giving the "&E;"...
> 
> Right, as it should.  "A&E" is not valid HTML, and beautifulsoup expects
> valid HTML.
> 
> This can be difficult to fix in the general case, because your page might
> already contain "&".  If it is possible that some of them might be
> wrong while some are right, you can do something like:
> 
>     s = s.replace( '&', '&' ).replace( '&', '&' )

Yeah, but what about ä and friend then? As you said, its not really
easy to fix.

Regards
Tino
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