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35 questions linked to/from Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python
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Decode HTML entities in Python string?
I'm parsing some HTML with Beautiful Soup 3, but it contains HTML entities which Beautiful Soup 3 doesn't automatically decode for me:
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>&...
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How do I get rid of characters like ' that appear instead of apostrophes? [duplicate]
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Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python
I am attempting to scrape a website using Python. I import and use the urllib2, BeautifulSoup and re modules.
response =...
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How do I convert characters like ":" to ":" in python? [duplicate]
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Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python
In html sources, there are tons of chars like "&# 58;" or "&# 46;" (have to put space between &# and numbers ...
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Convert ascii characters to normal text [duplicate]
I have text like this:
‘The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache,’wroteforumuser Ensorceled.
I understand that #...
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encoding/decoding unicode and utf-8 : Python [duplicate]
I have a html text : If I'm reading lots of articles
I am trying to replace ' and other such special characters into unicode '. I did
rawtxt.encode('utf-8').encode('ascii','ignore'...
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Python, XML, é type encodings [duplicate]
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Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python
I am reading an excel XML document using Python. I end up with a lot of characters such as
é
That ...
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Unicode encoding in python [duplicate]
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Convert XML/HTML Entities into Unicode String in Python
Decode HTML entities in Python string?
I am using Python 2.7 and am fairly lost in unicode type. I looked up variety ...
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Anyone know what kind of unicode is this with &# and semicolon please? how to turn it into chinese characters string in Python please? [duplicate]
I have these symbols which I am quite sure they are chinese characters.
旅行時，我生病
Please anyone know what kind of unicode is ...
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Extracting text from HTML file using Python
I'd like to extract the text from an HTML file using Python. I want essentially the same output I would get if I copied the text from a browser and pasted it into notepad.
I'd like something more ...
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How do I perform HTML decoding/encoding using Python/Django?
I have a string that is HTML encoded:
'''<img class="size-medium wp-image-113"\
style="margin-left: 15px;" title="su1"\
src="...
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Replace html entities with the corresponding utf-8 characters in Python 2.6
I have a html text like this:
<xml ... >
and I want to convert it to something readable:
<xml ...>
Any easy (and fast) way to do it in Python?
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Change ' into normal character
I'm having trouble displaying content,
my program:
#! /usr/bin/python
import urllib
import re
url = "http://yahoo.com"
pattern = '''<span class="medium item-label".*?>(.*)</span>'''
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HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape() doesn't work
I would like to convert HTML entities back to its human readable format, e.g. '£' to '£', '°' to '°' etc.
I've read several posts regarding this question
Converting html source ...
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Getting international characters from a web page? [duplicate]
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 ÄÄRITALO!
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Decoding html content and HTMLParser
I'm creating a sub-class based on 'HTMLParser' to pull out html content. Whenever I have character refs such as
' ' '&' '–' '…'
I'd like to replace them with ...