July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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Dealing with non-ASCII text and HTML entities
HTML is not as structured as data from a database query or a pandas DataFrame. You may be tempted to manipulate HTML with regular expressions or string functions. However, this approach works only in a limited number of cases. You are better off using specialized Python libraries to process HTML. In this recipe, we will use the clean_html() function of the lxml library. This function strips all JavaScript and CSS from a HTML page.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) was the dominant encoding standard on the Internet until the end of 2007 with UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode) taking over first place. ASCII is limited to the English alphabet and has no support for alphabets of different languages. ...