String to html string python

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When I print the string (in Python) coming from a website I scraped it from, it looks like this:

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How do I convert a text file to HTML in Python?
How do I get HTML data from Python?
How do I convert a string to a string in Python?
How do you write HTML code in Python?

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String"

It does not show the \n breaks. this is what I see in a Python interpreter.

And I want to convert it to HTML that will add in the line breaks. I was looking around and didn't see any libraries that do this out of the box.

I was thinking BeautifulSoup, but wasn't quite sure.

Nimantha

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asked Mar 9, 2019 at 16:07

Morgan AllenMorgan Allen

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If you have a String that you have readed it from a file you can just replace \n to <br>, which is a line break in html, by doing:

my_string.replace('\n', '<br>')

answered Mar 9, 2019 at 16:12

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You can use the python replace(...) method to replace all line breaks with the html version <br> and possibly surround the string in a paragraph tag <p>...</p>. Let's say the name of the variable with the text is text:

html = "<p>" + text.replace("\n", "<br>") + "</p>"

answered Mar 9, 2019 at 16:30

Omari CelestineOmari Celestine

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searching for this answer in found this, witch is likely better because it encodes all characters, at least for python 3 Python – Convert HTML Characters To Strings

# import html
import html

# Create Text
text = 'Γeeks for Γeeks'

# It Converts given text To String
print(html.unescape(text))

# It Converts given text to HTML Entities
print(html.escape(text))

answered Sep 27 at 8:21

I believe this will work

for line in text:
   for char in line:
      if char == "/n":
         text.replace(char, "<br>")

answered Mar 9, 2019 at 16:16

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Prerequisites: html module

Given a string with HTML characters, the task is to convert HTML characters to a string. This can be achieved with the help of html.escape() method(for Python 3.4+), we can convert the ASCII string into HTML script by replacing ASCII characters with special characters by using html.escape()method.

By this method we can decode the HTML entities into text.

Syntax:

html.unescape(String)

We can also use Beautiful Soupwhich handles entity conversion. In Beautiful Soup 4, entities get decoded automatically.

Example 1: Python 3.6+

Python3

import html

text = 'Γeeks for Γeeks'

print(html.unescape(text))

print(html.escape(text))

Output:

Γeeks for Γeeks
Γeeks for Γeeks

Example 2: Python 2.6-3.3

We can use HTMLParser.unescape() from the standard library:

For Python 2.6-2.7 it’s in HtmlParser.
For Python 3 it’s in html.parser

Python3

import html

try:

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

except ImportError:

from html.parser import HTMLParser

h = html.parser

print(h.unescape('Γeeks for Γeeks'))

Output:

Γeeks for Γeeks

How do I convert a text file to HTML in Python?

How to convert TXT to HTML.

Install 'Aspose. Words for Python via . NET'..

Add a library reference (import the library) to your Python project..

Open the source TXT file in Python..

Call the 'save()' method, passing an output filename with HTML extension..

Get the result of TXT conversion as HTML..

How do I get HTML data from Python?

Sending an HTTP GET request to the URL of the webpage that you want to scrape, which will respond with HTML content. We can do this by using the Request library of Python. Fetching and parsing the data using Beautifulsoup and maintain the data in some data structure such as Dict or List.

How do I convert a string to a string in Python?

The str() function takes in any python data type and converts it into a string. But use of the str() is not the only way to do so. This type of conversion can also be done using the “%s” keyword, the .format function or using f-string function.