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plugins/util/misc.py

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+from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
+from time import time as unix_time
+from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
+from datetime import datetime
+import tempfile
+import logging as log
+import errno
+import re
+import sys
+import os
+
+class HTMLStripper(HTMLParser):
+
+    def __init__(self, data):
+        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        self._stripped = []
+        self.feed(data)
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+        if tag.lower() == 'br':
+            self._stripped.append('\n')
+
+    def handle_charref(self, name):
+        try:
+            if name.lower().startswith('x'):
+                char = int(name[1:], 16)
+            else:
+                char = int(name)
+            self._stripped.append(unichr(char))
+        except Exception, error:
+            log.warn('invalid entity: %s' % error)
+
+    def handle_entityref(self, name):
+        try:
+            char = unichr(name2codepoint[name])
+        except Exception, error:
+            log.warn('unknown entity: %s' % error)
+            char = u'&%s;' % name
+        self._stripped.append(char)
+
+    def handle_data(self, data):
+        self._stripped.append(data)
+
+    @property
+    def stripped(self):
+        return ''.join(self._stripped)
+
+def superscript(text):
+    if isinstance(text, str):
+        text = decode(text, 'utf-8')
+    return text.translate(SUPER_MAP)
+
+def strip_html(data):
+    return HTMLStripper(data).stripped