In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adam Atlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As far as I know, there isn't a standard idiom to do this, but it's
>still a one-liner. Untested, but I think this should work:
>
>import re
>from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
>def htmlentitydecode(s):
> return re.sub('&(%s);' % '|'.join(name2codepoint), lambda m:
>name2codepoint[m.group(1)], s)
>
How strange that this doesn't appear in the Cookbook! I'm
curious about how others think: does such an item better
belong in the Cookbook, or the Wiki?
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