punctuation

punctuation is a Python tool that converts common punctuation markers in a string of text into proper HTML entities.

Source HTML entity Description
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--- — em dash
-- – en dash
"" ... "" “ and ” opening and closing double quotes
' ... ' ‘ and ’ opening and closing single quotes
' ’ apostrophe

Installation

Install with pip:

pip install punctuation

Or, the latest from Github:

pip install -e git+git://github.com/honza/punctuation.git#egg=punctuation

Usage

Command line utility:

punctuation path/to/file.html

Or, API:

from punctuation import HtmlPunctuationMaker

string = "This is a test---that's right"
html = HtmlPunctuationMaker(string).html
print html
>>>
"This is a test—that’s right"

Requirements:

• Python