Escaping HTML in Python

Question

How to escape HTML with characters like – in Python?

See this previous Stack Overflow question: stackoverflow.com/questions/913933/… — las3rjock
– las3rjock, Commented Aug 8, 2009 at 15:48
@Alex, please clarify: do you have a Python Unicode string and want to produce the escaped HTML, or viceversa, do you have the HTML containing escapes and want to produce a Python Unicode string? — Alex Martelli
– Alex Martelli, Commented Aug 8, 2009 at 16:07
@Alex, I'd like to produce a Python Unicode string from HTML with escapes ASCII string, well, and the other way round as well. — Alex
– Alex, Commented Aug 9, 2009 at 11:59

Martin v. Löwis · Accepted Answer · 2009-08-08 16:52:23Z

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If you have a unicode string as input, you can use the xmlcharrefreplace error handler:

py> u"<p>\N{EN DASH}</p>".encode("ascii", "xmlcharrefreplace")
'<p>&#8211;</p>'

answered Aug 8, 2009 at 16:52

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Abhishek Bera · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-20 13:15:19Z

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Try this

import cgi
print cgi.escape("<b>Your HTML Bold Text</b>")

answered Sep 20, 2015 at 13:15

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