January 28th, 2005, 12:44 PM
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Hello World :)
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hull, UK
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A while back when I first worked with HTML entities from Python (for my Net module – below) I wrote several functions for converting special characters to entities, however I've never needed a function to convert them back again  .
For anyone who's interested: http://forums.devshed.com/t129666/s.html&highlight=net+module
But now I have the excuse, heres a simple function that should do what you want. It lacks any error checking but should work will all valid [numeric] entities.
Code:
def convert(entity):
return chr(int(entity[2:-1]))
Here's the same thing as a list comprehension in the Python shell, just to show the conversion in action:
Code:
>>> entities = ('>', '&', '<')
>>> [chr(int(entity[2:-1])) for entity in entities]
['>', '&', '<']
>>>
As you can see it's surprisingly easy! And converting back again isn't much more difficult once you know how it all works  .
Hope this helps,
Mark.
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Last edited by netytan : January 28th, 2005 at 12:51 PM.
Reason: Added URL to my Net Module.
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