[pygtk] Problem in fetching Unicode from URL and displaying it in PyGTK widget

[saeed]

Use function "eval", for example:

data = '&#xE1'
uni = eval("u'\\%s'"%data[2:]) ## u'\xE1' or u'á'
st = uni.encode('utf-8') ## 'á'

Is there another problem?

On 7/17/09, Bertrand Kintanar <b3rxkintanar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/17/09 7:53 PM, Chris Camacho wrote:
>>  hmmm...
>>
>>  being that
>>
>>  print '\\'
>>
>>  displays
>>
>>  '\'
>>
>>  isn't that a bug?
>>
>>
> that is one of my question that it been troubling me. why is replace
> have a special treatment in dealing with escape characters while other
> function such as print does the exact thing which escapes the character.
> if i follow it correctly replace should only see one backslash to be
> inserted in the string instead of two.
>
> i have found this post in python mailing list:
>
>      http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/614590.html.
>
> But I want the exact opposite from that post. from HTML entries to
> Unicode. so there must be some way to reverse that function. correct?
>
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