Scrit by Marc-Andre Lemburg to generate htmlentitydefs.py.
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/parseentities.py b/Tools/scripts/parseentities.py
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+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+""" Utility for parsing HTML entity definitions available from:
+
+ http://www.w3.org/ as e.g.
+ http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/HTMLlat1.ent
+
+ Input is read from stdin, output is written to stdout in form of a
+ Python snippet defining a dictionary "entitydefs" mapping literal
+ entity name to character or numeric entity.
+
+ Marc-Andre Lemburg, mal@lemburg.com, 1999.
+ Use as you like. NO WARRANTIES.
+
+"""
+import re,sys
+import TextTools
+
+entityRE = re.compile('<!ENTITY +(\w+) +CDATA +"([^"]+)" +-- +((?:.|\n)+?) *-->')
+
+def parse(text,pos=0,endpos=None):
+
+ pos = 0
+ if endpos is None:
+ endpos = len(text)
+ d = {}
+ while 1:
+ m = entityRE.search(text,pos,endpos)
+ if not m:
+ break
+ name,charcode,comment = m.groups()
+ d[name] = charcode,comment
+ pos = m.end()
+ return d
+
+def writefile(f,defs):
+
+ f.write("entitydefs = {\n")
+ items = defs.items()
+ items.sort()
+ for name,(charcode,comment) in items:
+ if charcode[:2] == '&#':
+ code = int(charcode[2:-1])
+ if code < 256:
+ charcode = "'\%o'" % code
+ else:
+ charcode = repr(charcode)
+ else:
+ charcode = repr(charcode)
+ comment = TextTools.collapse(comment)
+ f.write(" '%s':\t%s, \t# %s\n" % (name,charcode,comment))
+ f.write('\n}\n')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+ infile = open(sys.argv[1])
+ else:
+ infile = sys.stdin
+ if len(sys.argv) > 2:
+ outfile = open(sys.argv[2],'w')
+ else:
+ outfile = sys.stdout
+ text = infile.read()
+ defs = parse(text)
+ writefile(outfile,defs)
+