html entity to unicode

[zunbeltz]

Hi,

I'm parsing html. I have a page with a lot of html enitties for hebrew
characters. When i print what i get are blanks, dots and commas. How
can i decode this entities to unicode charachters?

TIA

Zunbeltz

 

[Peter Maas]

Hi,

I'm parsing html. I have a page with a lot of html enitties for hebrew
characters. When i print what i get are blanks, dots and commas. How
can i decode this entities to unicode charachters?

Python doc

13.4 htmlentitydefs -- Definitions of HTML general entities

[...]

name2codepoint
A dictionary that maps HTML entity names to the Unicode codepoints. New in version 2.3.

codepoint2name
A dictionary that maps Unicode codepoints to HTML entity names. New in version 2.3.

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