[I suppose this is an ignorant question--appologies for that]

I was looking for a routine that encodes special characters in a
string (such as accented characters or German umlauts) to their
corresponding HTML entities.  I expected to find it in a standard
python library or in quixote--but all I found was htmlentitydefs.

Not that it would be excessive work to write my own--just that I
thought it was nicer to use a more standard approach.  Can anyone
point me to the routine?

thanks
--b

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