HTML string decode in python

Question

How to decode this string in python?

title = '&#70;&#97;&#115;&#116;&#32;&#38;&#32;&#70;&#117;&#114;&#105;&#111;&#117;&#115;&#32;&#54;'

to get:

Fast & Furious 6

Thank you!

That is HTML encoded not XML.

Dijkgraaf
– Dijkgraaf

2017-10-15 22:47:24 +00:00
Commented Oct 15, 2017 at 22:47 — Dijkgraaf
– Dijkgraaf, Commented Oct 15, 2017 at 22:47

Daniele · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-15 22:31:16Z

1

with this code you got char symbol from ascii rappresentation.

title = '&#70;&#97;&#115;&#116;&#32;&#38;&#32;&#70;&#117;&#114;&#105;&#111;&#117;&#115;&#32;&#54;'
title = title[:-1]
substring=[x.strip() for x in title.split(';')]
titleFinal = ''

for ch in substring:
    newstr = ch.replace("&#", "")
    titleFinal+=chr(int(newstr))

print(titleFinal)

edited Oct 15, 2017 at 22:31

answered Oct 15, 2017 at 22:09

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MarianD · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-15 23:14:33Z

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Just use the built-in html module:

import html
decoded_title = html.unescape(title))

as your string consists of HTML-safe sequences (numeric character references).

edited Oct 15, 2017 at 23:14

answered Oct 15, 2017 at 23:09

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