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December 7, 2012 08:18
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onverting HTML to Plain Text
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import re | |
## | |
# Removes HTML markup from a text string. | |
# | |
# @param text The HTML source. | |
# @return The plain text. If the HTML source contains non-ASCII | |
# entities or character references, this is a Unicode string. | |
def strip_html(text): | |
def fixup(m): | |
text = m.group(0) | |
if text[:1] == "<": | |
return "" # ignore tags | |
if text[:2] == "&#": | |
try: | |
if text[:3] == "&#x": | |
return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16)) | |
else: | |
return unichr(int(text[2:-1])) | |
except ValueError: | |
pass | |
elif text[:1] == "&": | |
import htmlentitydefs | |
entity = htmlentitydefs.entitydefs.get(text[1:-1]) | |
if entity: | |
if entity[:2] == "&#": | |
try: | |
return unichr(int(entity[2:-1])) | |
except ValueError: | |
pass | |
else: | |
return unicode(entity, "iso-8859-1") | |
return text # leave as is | |
return re.sub("(?s)<[^>]*>|&#?\w+;", fixup, text) |
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