Web page special characters encoding

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mattia wrote:
> Hi all, I'm using py3k and the urllib package to download web pages. Can 
> you suggest me a package that can translate reserved characters in html 
> like "è", "ò", "é" in the corresponding correct 
> encoding?
> 
import re
from html.entities import entitydefs

# The downloaded web page will be bytes, so decode it to a string.
webpage = downloaded_page.decode("iso-8859-1")

# Then decode the HTML entities.
webpage = re.sub(r"&(\w+);", lambda m: entitydefs[m.group(1)], webpage)