smart quotes

[Adrian Smith]

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of smart quotes in html using
Python? I've tried variations on
stuff = string.replace(stuff, "\“", "\""), but to no avail, presumably
because they're not standard ASCII.

 

[Peter Otten]

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of smart quotes in html using
Python? I've tried variations on
stuff = string.replace(stuff, "\“", "\""), but to no avail, presumably
because they're not standard ASCII.

Convert the string to unicode. For that you have to know its encoding. I
assume UTF-8:

Now you can replace the quotes (I looked up the codes in wikipedia):
u'a smart quote example'

Alternatively, if you have many characters to remove translate() is more
efficient:

u.translate(dict.fromkeys([0x201c, 0x201d, 0x2018, 0x2019]))

u'a smart quote example'

If necessary convert the result back to the original encoding:

clean = u.translate(dict.fromkeys([0x201c, 0x201d, 0x2018, 0x2019]))
clean.encode("utf-8")

'a smart quote example'

Peter

 

[Adrian Smith]

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of smart quotes in html using
Python? I've tried variations on
stuff = string.replace(stuff, "\“", "\""), but to no avail, presumably
because they're not standard ASCII.

Convert the string to unicode. For that you have to know its encoding. I
assume UTF-8:

Now you can replace the quotes (I looked up the codes in wikipedia):

u'a smart quote example'

Alternatively, if you have many characters to remove translate() is more
efficient:

u.translate(dict.fromkeys([0x201c, 0x201d, 0x2018, 0x2019]))

u'a smart quote example'

If necessary convert the result back to the original encoding:

clean = u.translate(dict.fromkeys([0x201c, 0x201d, 0x2018, 0x2019]))
clean.encode("utf-8")

'a smart quote example'

Peter

Brilliant, thanks!