bruce wrote:
> simon...
>
> the ' ' is not to be seen/viewed as text/ascii.. it's a representation
> of a hex 'u\xa0' if i recall...
Did you not see this part of the post that you're replying to?
> 'nbsp': '\xa0',
My point was not that '\xa0' is an ascii character... It was that your
initial request was very misleading:
"i'm running into a problem where i'm seeing non-ascii chars in the
parsing i'm doing. in looking through various docs, i can't find
functions to remove/restrict strings to valid ascii chars."
That's why you got three different answers to the wrong question.
You weren't "seeing non-ascii chars" at all. You were seeing ascii
representations of html entities that, in the case of ' ', happen
to represent non-ascii values.
>
> i'm looking to remove or replace the insances with a ' ' (space)
Simplicity:
s.replace(' ', ' ')
~Simon
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
means."
-Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
>
> -bruce
>
>
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> Of Simon Forman
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 7:17 PM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Re: ascii character - removing chars from string
>
>
> bruce wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > update. i'm getting back html, and i'm getting strings like " foo "
> > which is valid HTML as the ' ' is a space.
>
> &, n, b, s, p, ; Those are all ascii characters.
>
> > i need a way of stripping/removing the ' ' from the string
> >
> > the needs to be treated as a single char...
> >
> > text = "foo cat "
> >
> > ie ok_text = strip(text)
> >
> > ok_text = "foo cat"
>
> Do you really want to remove those html entities? Or would you rather
> convert them back into the actual text they represent? Do you just
> want to deal with 's? Or maybe the other possible entities that
> might appear also?
>
> Check out htmlentitydefs.entitydefs (see
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-htmlentitydefs.html) it's kind of
> ugly looking so maybe use pprint to print it:
>
> >>> import htmlentitydefs, pprint
> >>> pprint.pprint(htmlentitydefs.entitydefs)
> {'AElig': 'Æ',
> 'Aacute': 'Á',
> 'Acirc': 'Â',
> .
> .
> .
> 'nbsp': '\xa0',
> .
> .
> .
> etc...
>
>
> HTH,
> ~Simon
>
> "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
> means."
> -Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"
>
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