Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to have a function that can convert '>' into '>', > '&' into '&' etc. I could not find how to do it easily (I have a > code snippet for the opposite). > Thanks, > > Laszlo >
You can use htmlentitydefs module to help with this.
import htmlentitydefs
chr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint['gt'])
and (to go the other way)
htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord('>')]
-Larry
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