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I have looked all around and only found solutions for python 2.6 and earlier, NOTHING on how to do this in python 3.X. (I only have access to Win7 box.) I HAVE to be able to do this in 3.1 and ...

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I'm doing some web scraping and sites frequently use HTML entities to represent non ascii characters. Does Python have a utility that takes a string with HTML entities and returns a unicode type? For ...

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Does anyone know an easy way in Python to convert a string with HTML entity codes (e.g. &lt; &amp;) to a normal string (e.g. < &)? cgi.escape() will escape strings (poorly), but there ...

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1 answer

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Possible Duplicate: Decode HTML entities in Python string? I have a string full of HTML escape characters such as &quot;, &rdquo;, and &mdash;. Do any Python libraries offer reliable ...

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print u'&lt;' How can I print < print '>' How can I print &gt;

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I want to scrape some information off a football (soccer) web page using simple python regexp's. The problem is that players such as the first chap, ÄÄRITALO, comes out as &#196;&#196;RITALO! ...

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I've a huge csv file of tweets. I read them both into the computer and stored them in two separate dictionaries - one for negative tweets, one for positive. I wanted to read the file in and parse it ...

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Possible Duplicate: Decode HTML entities in Python string? I have parsed some HTML text. But some punctuations like apostrophe are replaced by &#8217;. How to revert them back to ` P.S: I am ...

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I'm trying to write a json to csv - using Python 3.6 - and the json contains &amp;. How can I write just plain ampersands (&) instead of &amp;? I've tried str.replace using a variety of ...

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I scraped news article titles and URLs, and stored the titles and urls in a tsv file as plain text. For some reason, the scraper I use converts some characters (€ for example) into hexacode. I have ...

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I am using requests to request a page. The task is very simple, but I have a problem with encoding. The page contains non-ascii, Turkish characters, but in the HTML source, the result is as below: ...

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I've been banging my head against the wall with this for a while. I'm trying to parse an RSS feed with Python's BeautifulSoup, and every now and then I get errors like: I don&#39;t know what I ...

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Possible Duplicate: Decode HTML entities in Python string? I have a malformed string in Python: Muhammad Ali&#39;s fight with Larry Holmes where &#39; is a apostrophe. Firstly what ...

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I'm trying to split on a lookahead, but it doesn't work for the last occurrence. How do I do this? my_str = 'HRC&#226;&#128;&#153;s' import re print(re.split(r'.(?=&)', my_str)) My ...

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My python string consists of &#039; instead of ' (single quotes). My current objective is to expand compound words like It's to It is, Haven't to Have not. "This has been great for me. I&#...