Working around uTidyLib's unicode handling

By Stuart Colville in unicode on

A couple of weeks back I was giving uTidyLib a hard time for exploding when passed a unicode string. (see FAIL of the week: uTidyLib unicode error). Looking further into using uTidyLib for tidying HTML I found there is a way to make uTidyLib handle unicode correctly. The workaround is…

FAIL of the week: uTidyLib unicode error

By Stuart Colville in Python on

This week I’ve been having fun using uTidyLib, a python wrapper for HTML tidy. All was working swimmingly until I hooked it up to a custom form validation function in Django. The Python process on my mac kept crashing and I was wondering what the cause was since it…