Escaping HTML in Python

Question

How to escape HTML with characters like – in Python?

See this previous Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/913933/decoding-html-encoded-strings-in-python — las3rjock, Aug 08 '09 at 15:48
@Alex, please clarify: do you have a Python Unicode string and want to produce the escaped HTML, or viceversa, do you have the HTML containing escapes and want to produce a Python Unicode string? — Alex Martelli, Aug 08 '09 at 16:07
@Alex, I'd like to produce a Python Unicode string from HTML with escapes ASCII string, well, and the other way round as well. — Alex, Aug 09 '09 at 11:59

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '09 at 16:52

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If you have a unicode string as input, you can use the xmlcharrefreplace error handler:

py> u"<p>\N{EN DASH}</p>".encode("ascii", "xmlcharrefreplace")
'<p>&#8211;</p>'

answered Aug 08 '09 at 16:52

Martin v. Löwis

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '15 at 13:15

0

Try this

import cgi
print cgi.escape("<b>Your HTML Bold Text</b>")

answered Sep 20 '15 at 13:15

Abhishek Bera

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