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olaf · 09-26-2009, 10:03 AM

Figured out the smart-quotes thing with encoding. But now I am trying to determine how to replace actual text that is in error. In several places in the actual RSS feed there is an appearance of 'and #8216;' instead of a single quote. The preprocess_regexps command seems to replace everything between x and y with z - that is the only thing I know to make text replacements with. But I tried the following command to no avail. Is this the right command? Do I have the syntax wrong? I just want to replace the entire string, but do I say replace everything between 'and #8217' and semicolon with "'"? (the latter being a single-quote embedded in double-quotes).

preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'and #8216.?;', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '"')]

Also - trying to convert '<STRONG>' to '<b>', but doesn't seem to work. using for a command is
preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'<strong.?>', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '<b>')]

(also doing a similar command for the end tag.) What am I doing wrong?

09-26-2009, 10:03 AM	#776
olaf Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 50 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle3	Figured out the smart-quotes thing with encoding. But now I am trying to determine how to replace actual text that is in error. In several places in the actual RSS feed there is an appearance of 'and #8216;' instead of a single quote. The preprocess_regexps command seems to replace everything between x and y with z - that is the only thing I know to make text replacements with. But I tried the following command to no avail. Is this the right command? Do I have the syntax wrong? I just want to replace the entire string, but do I say replace everything between 'and #8217' and semicolon with "'"? (the latter being a single-quote embedded in double-quotes). preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'and #8216.?;', re.DOTALL\|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '"')] Also - trying to convert '<STRONG>' to '<b>', but doesn't seem to work. using for a command is preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(r'<strong.?>', re.DOTALL\|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '<b>')] (also doing a similar command for the end tag.) What am I doing wrong? Last edited by olaf; 09-26-2009 at 11:17 AM.