Limnoria/src/utils.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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"""
Simple utility functions.
"""

from fix import *

import sgmllib
import htmlentitydefs

class HtmlToText(sgmllib.SGMLParser):
    """Taken from some eff-bot code on c.l.p."""
    entitydefs = htmlentitydefs.entitydefs
    def __init__(self):
        self.data = []
        sgmllib.SGMLParser.__init__(self)

    def unknown_starttag(self, tag, attrib):
        self.data.append(" ")

    def unknown_endtag(self, tag):
        self.data.append(" ")

    def handle_data(self, data):
        self.data.append(data)

    def getText(self):
        text = ''.join(self.data).strip()
        return ' '.join(text.split()) # normalize whitespace

def htmlToText(s):
    x = HtmlToText()
    x.feed(s)
    return x.getText()

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