Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> In trying to parse html files using ElementTree running under Python
>> 3.0a1, and using htmlentitydefs.py to add "character entities" to the
>> parser, I found that I needed to create a customized version of
>> htmlentitydefs.py to make things work properly.
>
> Can you please state what precise problem you were seeing? The original
> code looks fine to me as it stands.
from what I can tell, his problem is that htmlentitydefs.entitydefs maps
to *either* character strings or HTML character references, depending on
the character value. he needs a dictionary that maps from entity names
to characters for *all* names; something like (untested):
entity_map = htmlentitydefs.entitydefs.copy()
for name, entity in entity_map.items():
if len(entity) != 1:
entity_map[name] = unichr(int(entity[2:-1]))
(entitydefs is pretty unusable as it is, but it was added to Python
before Python got Unicode strings, and changing it would break ancient
code...)
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