namedentities 1.0

Simple way to convert numeric HTML entities to far more readable named entities.

Installation

pip install namedentities

Failing that, fall back to the older approach:

easy_install namedentities

(You may need to begin these with “sudo “ to authorize installation.)

Usage

Python 2:

from namedentities import named_entities

u = u'both em\u2014and–dashes…'
print named_entities(u)

Python 3:

from namedentities import named_entities

u = 'both em\u2014and–dashes…'
print(named_entities(u))

Credits

This is basically a packaging of Ian Beck’s work (described in http://beckism.com/2009/03/named_entities_python/)

Thank you, Ian!