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torayeff
torayeff

Reputation: 9702

python reading unicode characters from html

I have this script, which reads the text from web page:

page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(page);
paragraphs = soup.findAll('p');

for p in paragraphs:
    content = content+p.text+" ";

In the web page I have this string:

Möddinghofe

My script reads it as:

Möddinghofe

How can I read it as it is?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 986

Answers (2)

twaddington
twaddington

Reputation: 11645

I suggest you take a look at the encoding section of the BeautifulSoup documentation.

Upvotes: 0

Anuj
Anuj

Reputation: 9622

Hope this would help you 

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
import cgi

def HTMLEntitiesToUnicode(text):
    """Converts HTML entities to unicode.  For example '&' becomes '&'."""
    text = unicode(BeautifulStoneSoup(text, convertEntities=BeautifulStoneSoup.ALL_ENTITIES))
    return text

def unicodeToHTMLEntities(text):
    """Converts unicode to HTML entities.  For example '&' becomes '&'."""
    text = cgi.escape(text).encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
    return text

text = "&, ®, <, >, ¢, £, ¥, €, §, ©"

uni = HTMLEntitiesToUnicode(text)
htmlent = unicodeToHTMLEntities(uni)

print uni
print htmlent
# &, ®, <, >, ¢, £, ¥, €, §, ©
# &amp;, &#174;, &lt;, &gt;, &#162;, &#163;, &#165;, &#8364;, &#167;, &#169;

reference:Convert HTML entities to Unicode and vice versa

Upvotes: 1

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