Got it, great. This worked like a charm. I knew I was barking up the
wrong tree with urllib, but I didn't know which tree to bark up...
Thanks!
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
> > How can I translate this:
> >
> > gi
> >
> > to this:
> >
> > "gi"
>
> the easiest way is to run it through an H
Dave enlightened us with:
> How can I translate this:
>
> gi
>
> to this:
>
> "gi"
>
> I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.
As you put so nicely in the subject: it is HTML encoding, not URL
encoding. Those are two very different things! Try a HTML decoder,
you'll have more luck with tha
Dave wrote:
> How can I translate this:
>
> gi
>
> to this:
>
> "gi"
the easiest way is to run it through an HTML or XML parser (depending on
what the source is). or you could use something like this:
import re
def fix_charrefs(text):
def fixup(m):
text = m.
How can I translate this:
gi
to this:
"gi"
I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.
Thanks!
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