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  • #!/usr/bin/env 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)