import re
-entity_re = re.compile("(&#[0-9]+;)")
+from htmlentitydefs import entitydefs
+
+entity_re = re.compile("(&\w+;)")
+num_entity_re = re.compile("(&#[0-9]+;)")
def recode_entities(title, charset):
output = []
- for part in entity_re.split(title):
- if entity_re.match(part):
+
+ for part in num_entity_re.split(title):
+ if num_entity_re.match(part):
try:
part = unichr(int(part[2:-1])).encode(charset)
except UnicodeEncodeError:
pass # Leave the entity as is
output.append(part)
- return ''.join(output)
+ output2 = []
+ for part in entity_re.split(''.join(output)):
+ if entity_re.match(part):
+ part = entitydefs.get(part[1:-1], part)
+ output2.append(part)
+
+ return ''.join(output2)
def parse_html(filename, charset=None, log=None):