retronews

commit 7fb108f63445e48a679a73967c3ef0471bbb0929
parent 6d10c1a3f54c7d68c53b79ed93b0ec7bc6722c42
Author: quantumish <freifeld.david@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun,  9 Aug 2026 16:50:44 -0700

Remove html.unescape and re.fullmatch uses to support python 3.2

Diffstat:
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retronews.py
 | 
18
+++++++++++++++---

1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/retronews.py b/retronews.py
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ LB_URL_REX = re.compile(r"^https://lobste\.rs/s/([a-z0-9]{6}).*$")
 
 TRUNCATE = lambda s,l: s[:l]
 
+
 class ExitException(Exception):
     def __init__(self, code = 0, message = ""):
         self.code = code
@@ -988,7 +989,7 @@ def hn_parse_search_hit(hit):
         content_location="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={}".format(hit['objectID']),
         date=datetime.fromtimestamp(hit["created_at_i"]),
         author=hit["author"],
-        title=html.unescape(hit["title"]),
+        title=html_unescape(hit["title"]),
         total_comments=(hit["num_comments"] or 0) + 1
     )
 
@@ -996,7 +997,7 @@ def hn_parse_search_hit(hit):
 def hn_parse_entry(entry, thread_id = "", parent = None):
     thread_id = thread_id or str(entry["id"])
 
-    my_title = html.unescape(entry["title"]) if entry["title"] else None
+    my_title = html_unescape(entry["title"]) if entry["title"] else None
 
     parent_title = parent.title if parent else ""
     parent_title = parent_title if parent_title.startswith("Re: ") else "Re: {}".format(parent_title)
@@ -1068,6 +1069,16 @@ def datetime_from_iso(iso):
     iso = iso.replace(":", "")
     return datetime.strptime(iso, "%Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S.%f%z")
 
+def html_unescape(string, mapping={}):
+    # gross hack exploiting how python only evaluates the default argument once
+    if len(mapping) == 0:
+        print("requesting...")
+        req = urllib.request.Request("https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json")
+        resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode()
+        mapping.update(json.loads(resp))
+    for replacement in mapping:
+        string = string.replace(replacement, mapping[replacement]["characters"])
+    return string
 
 def lb_parse_thread(thread):
     comments = {}
@@ -1455,7 +1466,8 @@ def app_render_pager_line(app, row, line):
     app.screen.move(row, 0)
 
     for part in text_split_urls(line):
-        is_url = URL_REX.fullmatch(part)
+        re_match = URL_REX.match(part)
+        is_url = re_match.end() == len(part) if re_match is not None else False
         part_attr = app.colors["url"] if is_url and hl_urls else line_attr
         app.screen.addstr(part, part_attr)