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-
-#
-# String/unicode conversion utils.
-#
-
-def safestr(s):
- """
- Safely corerce *anything* to a string. If the object can't be str'd, an
- empty string will be returned.
-
- You can (and I do) use this for really crappy unicode handling, but it's
- a bit like killing a mosquito with a bazooka.
- """
- if s is None:
- return ""
- if isinstance(s, unicode):
- return s.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
- else:
- try:
- return str(s)
- except:
- return ""
-
-def safeint(s):
- """Like safestr(), but always returns an int. Returns 0 on failure."""
- try:
- return int(safestr(s))
- except ValueError:
- return 0
-
-
-def convertentity(m):
- import htmlentitydefs
- """Convert a HTML entity into normal string (ISO-8859-1)"""
- if m.group(1)=='#':
- try:
- return chr(int(m.group(2)))
- except ValueError:
- return '&#%s;' % m.group(2)
- try:
- return htmlentitydefs.entitydefs[m.group(2)]
- except KeyError:
- return '&%s;' % m.group(2)
-
-def unquotehtml(s):
- import re
- """Convert a HTML quoted string into normal string (ISO-8859-1).
-
- Works with &#XX; and with   > etc."""
- return re.sub(r'&(#?)(.+?);',convertentity,s)