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. -- Kind Regards, Jan Danielsson Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
