htmlize.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

"""
Convert any text to a set of HTML codes.
You can use it against email and phone number HTML parsers
"""
def htmlize(text):
  assert(isinstance(text, str))
  res = ''
  for char in text:
    res += '&#'+str(ord(char))+';'
  return res

if __name__ == '__main__':
  print htmlize(sys.argv[1])