如何在python中将u'\\ x96'转换为u'–'

Question

I'm porting content from an old Wordpress blog to Mezzanine . I was given a json dump of the database and the posts are littered with special characters that look like this: \\x96 among otherwise unescaped html.

If I manually replace the slash with &# and append a semicolon the character renders correctly

so \\x96 to –

escaped UTF-8(hex) to HTML Entity(hex)

How to do this in Python?

Answer 1

If – is also acceptable, you can use:

>>> u'\x96'.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
'–'

which is even called out in the documentation ¹ .

^{1 (although not very clearly)...}