generate html entity codes

htmlentitycodes.py

import re

from htmlentitydefs import codepoint2name

# convert unicode or string to raw
def raw(s):

# raw function thanks to stackoverflow.com/users/1438542/balbc

    if isinstance(s, str):
        s = s.encode('string-escape')
    elif isinstance(s, unicode):
        s = s.encode('unicode-escape')
    return s

c = u'\xc1'

#convert unicode string to hex string
c = re.sub(r'\\',r'0',raw(c))

#base16 int conversion
c = int(c,16)

print "&"+codepoint2name[c]+";"

print "&"+codepoint2name[int(re.sub(r'\\',r'0',raw(u'á')),16)]+";"