>> I'm working on a script to download and parse a web page, and it >> includes xml symbol notation, such as ' for the ' character. Does >> anyone know of a pre-existing python script/lib to convert the xml >> notation back to the actual symbol it represents? > > Try the htmlentitydefs module.
That won't help: this is a character reference, not an entity reference. htmlentitydefs only contains the definitions of entities. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
