pytidylib 0.1.2

New Python wrapper for tidylib

A new Python wrapper for tidylib, which allows you to convert slightly invalid HTML/XHTML markup into valid markup. E.g. this will correct unescaped ampersands, some unclosed tags, missing elements, missing attributes, etc. Tidylib is highly configurable; it can output HTML or XHTML, and perform other functions such as converting named entities to numeric entities (named entities work only along with an HTML or XHTML doctype; numeric entities work in generic XML data).

Note 1: Now hosted directly on PyPi so the download should work for easy_install

Note 2: Unfortunately, neither this library, nor uTidyLib, nor a barebones test case seems to work with the prepackaged tidy.dll on Windows. Until this is fixed, this is a Linux/BSD/OS X/Cygwin library.

Trivial example of use:

from tidylib import tidy_document
document, errors = tidy_document('''<p>f&otilde;o <img src="bar.jpg">''',
    options={'numeric-entities':1})
print document
print errors

For documentation see the pytidylib project page