valide html - Encoding/Decoding

[rabby]

hello world!
how to get the string "/ + ( ) + \ + [ ] + : + äöü" converted into
valide html.
"...".decode("html") does not run
thank you for help

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

hello world!
how to get the string "/ + ( ) + \ + [ ] + : + äöü" converted into
valide html.
"...".decode("html") does not run
thank you for help

Uhmm... You don't show enough for me to know what type of "decode"
you are trying... But HTML is not a unicode character set to my
knowledge, and that's the only place I've recently seen encode/decode
methods...

You probably want to examine the module

htmlentitydefs

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[gene tani]

hello world!
how to get the string "/ + ( ) + \ + [ ] + : + äöü" converted into
valide html.
"...".decode("html") does not run
thank you for help

the a-umlaut <=> ä and other translations are in htmlentitydefs,
like Dennis said.

cgi.escape will give you &lt; &amp; &quote; etc, xml.sax.saxutils has
parallel functions
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.saxutils.html

of the RFC 1738 encodings you need to do for chars in URLs, i believe
"~" is the only one you commonly have to worry about so rewrite as
"%7E" manually...