Question

This is my example script:

import urllib2, re

response = urllib2.urlopen('http://domain.tld/file')
data     = response.read() # Normally displays "the emoticon <3 is blah blah"

pattern   = re.search('(the emoticon )(.*)( is blah blah)', data)
result    = pattern.group(2) # result should contain "<3" now

print 'The result is ' + result # prints "&lt;3" because not encoded

As you can see, I am obtaining a page and trying to get a string out of it, but it isn’t encoded correctly as I am not sure what to add to this script o make the end result correct. Could anyone point out what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

try this:

>>> import HTMLParser
>>> h = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
>>> h.unescape('wer&wer')
u'wer&wer'