Watson - Html

Utility methods for dealing with HTML.

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Installation

pip install watson-html

Testing

Watson can be tested with py.test. Simply activate your virtualenv and run python setup.py test.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to Watson, please feel free to issue a pull request via Github with the associated tests for your code. Your name will be added to the AUTHORS file under contributors.

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Reference Library

watson.html.elements

class watson.html.elements.TagMixin(**kwargs)

Simple tag mixin used for all html tags.

All keyword arguments that get passed to __init__ will be converted into attributes for the element.

attributes

dict – a dictionary of attributes associated with the tag.

__init__(**kwargs)

watson.html.elements.flatten_attributes(attrs, keep_empty=False)

Flattens attributes into a single string of key=value pairs.

Attributes are sorted alphabetically.

watson.html.entities

watson.html.entities.decode(string)

Decodes html entities.

Returns:string with html entities decoded.

watson.html.entities.encode(string)

Encodes html entities.

This is a little more full featured than html.escape, as it will replace all charactes from codepoint2name.

Returns:string with replaced html entities.